River in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming
This article is about the river in South Dakota and Wyoming. For the Indian Reservation, see Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. For a North Dakota river with the same pronunciation, see Sheyenne River.
Not to be confused with Cheyenne Creek (Colorado) or Cheyenne Creek (South Dakota).
Cheyenne River
Lakota: Wakpá Wašté; "Good River"
Cheyenne River at the I-90 bridge crossing, near Wasta in Pennington County.
The Cheyenne River (Lakota: Wakpá Wašté; "Good River"[2]), also written Chyone,[3] referring to the Cheyenne people who once lived there,[4] is a tributary of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Wyoming and South Dakota. It is approximately 295 miles (475 km) long and drains an area of 24,240 square miles (62,800 km2).[5] About 60% of the drainage basin is in South Dakota and almost all of the remainder is in Wyoming.[6]
^"USGS Surface Water data for South Dakota: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics".
^Ullrich, Jan, ed. (2011). New Lakota Dictionary (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Lakota Language Consortium. pp. 607, 626, 883. ISBN 978-0-9761082-9-0. LCCN 2008922508.
^Marshall, Thomas Maitland, ed. (1923). The life and papers of Frederick Bates. St Louis MO: Missouri Historical Society. vol 1, p 203 - 1807 Hunting Licenses Granted July 6 Primo and Bessonett On the Chyone
^Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. American guide series. University of South Dakota. p. 4.
^"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-11-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Cheyenne River Phase I TMDL Assessment
^Hogan, Edward Patrick; Fouberg, Erin Hogan (2001). The Geography of South Dakota (Third ed.). Sioux Falls, SD: The Center for Western Studies – Augustana College. ISBN 0-931170-79-6.
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