Sheepscot River

Sheepscot River
Evening on the Sheepscot River
Location
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationMaine
 • elevation540 feet (160 m)
Mouth 
 • location
Gulf of Maine, Atlantic Ocean
 • coordinates
43°48′10″N 69°42′0″W / 43.80278°N 69.70000°W / 43.80278; -69.70000
 • elevation
sea level
Length66 miles (106 km)
Sheepscot River
Montville
Liberty
Branch Pond
Maine 3.svg SR 3 Palermo
Sheepscot Pond
Palermo Fish Hatchery
Meadow Brook
Weeks Mills
Hewitt Brook
Dearborn Brook
Choate Brook
Maine 105.svg SR 105 Windsor & Somerville
Long Pond
Travel Brook
Maine 17.svg SR 17Maine 32.svg SR 32 Coopers Mills
West Branch Sheepscot River
Finn Brook
Maine 126.svg SR 126 North Whitefield
Canyon Brook
Maine 194.svg SR 194Maine 218.svg SR 218 Whitefield
former railroad bridge
Head Tide
Trout Brook
Alna
Ben Brook
Dyer River
Sheepscot
Maine Eastern Railroad
US 1.svg US 1 Wiscasset
Sheepscot Bay

The Sheepscot River is a 66-mile-long (106 km)[1] river in the U.S. state of Maine. Its lower portion is a complex island estuary with connections to the Kennebec River downstream of Merrymeeting Bay.

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 22, 2011