| Five Mile River | |
|---|---|
&sq=&lang=&file=File:FiveMileRiverBrooksPond.jpg) Five Mile River head at Brooks Pond | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Brooks Pond |
| Mouth | |
• location | Lake Lashaway |
• elevation | 615 feet (187 m) |
| Length | 10.1 miles (16.3 km) |
| Basin size | 13.8 square miles (36 km2) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 5.5 cu ft/s (0.16 m3/s) |
The Five Mile River (Fivemile River on federal maps[1]) is a 10.1-mile-long (16.3 km)[2] river in central Massachusetts, part of the Chicopee River watershed. It rises north of Dean Pond in the Town of Oakham within Rutland State Forest and flows south through Dean Pond to Brooks Pond, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northeast of North Brookfield, then continues south to its mouth at the north end of Lake Lashaway, also in North Brookfield.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fivemile River
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 1, 2011