Little Wood River (Idaho)

Little Wood River
McArthurs River & Wood River
Little Wood River, south of Richfield
Little Wood River (Idaho) is located in Idaho
Little Wood River (Idaho)
Location of the mouth of the Little Wood River in Idaho
Little Wood River (Idaho) is located in the United States
Little Wood River (Idaho)
Little Wood River (Idaho) (the United States)
Location
CountryUnited States
StateIdaho
RegionBlaine County, Lincoln County, Gooding County
Physical characteristics
SourcePioneer Mountains
 • locationBlaine County
 • coordinates43°45′41″N 114°0′13″W / 43.76139°N 114.00361°W / 43.76139; -114.00361[1]
 • elevation9,832 ft (2,997 m)[2]
MouthMalad River
 • location
Gooding County
 • coordinates
42°56′42″N 114°47′46″W / 42.94500°N 114.79611°W / 42.94500; -114.79611[1]
 • elevation
3,460 ft (1,050 m)[2]
Length130 mi (210 km)
Discharge 
 • locationbelow Little Wood Reservoir[3]
 • average351 cu ft/s (9.9 m3/s)[3]
 • minimum0.34 cu ft/s (0.0096 m3/s)
 • maximum2,900 cu ft/s (82 m3/s)

Little Wood River is a 130-mile-long (210 km)[4] river in south-central Idaho in the United States.[1] It is a tributary of the Malad River, which in turn is a tributary to the Snake River and Columbia River.

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Little Wood River
  2. ^ a b Google Earth elevation for GNIS coordinates.
  3. ^ a b Water Resource Data, Idaho, 2005, USGS.
  4. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 4, 2011