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  Town of Redwater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Redwater area was surveyed in 1881-83 and registered on September 7, 1906.
Redwater was incorporated as a village December 31, 1949 and became a town November 25, 1950.
Redwater was considered a farming area until the discovery of oil by Imperial Oil Ltd. on Hilton Cook's farm in 1948.
www.town.redwater.ab.ca   (201 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Missouri River
The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the United States.
During the late 19th century, the river was a primary means of transportation of goods and passengers before the spread of the railroads.
Rivers of the United States Borders Maritime Claims Forty-nine states in the United States (all except Hawaii) lie on the North American continent; 48 of these (all except Alaska) are contiguous and form the continental United States.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Missouri-River   (3121 words)

  
 Redwater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The river was originally called the Vermillion River but the name was changed (from French to English) to avoid duplication.
The Redwater area was surveyed in 1881-83 and registered in 1906.
Redwater was considered a farming area until Imperial Oil Ltd discovered oil on Hilton Cook's farm in October 1948.
thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0010230   (229 words)

  
 Missouri River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There are six dams in three states: Fort Peck in Montana; Garrison in North Dakota; Oahe, Big Bend, and Fort Randall in South Dakota, and on the South Dakota-Nebraska border.
The river is notable for being the setting of the Pete Seeger song.
In the song, a captain leading a squad on training manuevers insists on crossing the titular river, insisting that it is safe to cross.
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Missouri_River   (655 words)

  
 Communities
Redwater is twelve miles southwest of Texarkana in southeastern Bowie County.
Sulphur was on the eastern division of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Sulphur River ten miles south of Texarkana in southeastern Bowie County.
Wamba, near the Red River five miles northwest of Texarkana in eastern Bowie County, is in an area that was occupied by squatters as early as the 1830s but not actually settled before the 1850s.
www.rootsweb.com /~txbowie/Communities.htm   (6237 words)

  
 Fish Passage - Culvert Inspection
Settlements within the watershed include the town of Nazko near the confluence of the Nazko River and Redwater Creek, and the Nazko Indian Reserve at the confluence of the mainstem and Michelle Creek.
Fluvial and glaciofluvial deposits dominate the mainstems of the Nazko and Clisbako rivers, while the remainder of the basin is overlain by basal and ablation morainal deposits of till (Lord and Walmsley, 1988).
The wet subzone of the Engelmann Spruce-Subalpine Fir Zone (ESSFh) is characterized by subalpine fir and Engelmann spruce, and occurs in localized regions of the eastern portion of the drainage basin (Annas and Coupé, 1979).
wlapwww.gov.bc.ca /car/env_stewardship/wrp/reports/fpci/nazko/nazko_culvert_fish_passage.html   (12989 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Arda: River Redwater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A river that ran near the eastern fringes of the known part of Middle-earth.
Its name is direct translation of the Elvish Carnen, and seems to be a literal description: rivers that flow out of land with strong iron deposits do indeed show a distinctive red-orange colour in their water.
Little is known of the peoples who lived along the river, except for the Northmen who lived in the lands west of the Redwater in the Third Age.
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 Encyclopedia of Arda: River Carnen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A river that rose in the Iron Hills, far to the north and east of the known parts of Middle-earth.
The river's name, Carnen, is a direct Elvish equivalent of its Mannish name, the Redwater.
Both are very likely a reference to its source in the Iron Hills, since rivers whose sources lie among iron deposits have water with a very distinctive red-orange colour.
www.encyclopedia-of-arda.com /c/carnen.html   (128 words)

  
 RedwaterStorydt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For hundreds of years the Redwater area was the home of small bands of Indians who lived mostly by hunting.
The Victoria Settlement was settled to the east of the Redwater River and Fort Edmonton to the west of the Redwater River.
Redwater became an important town in just a few months as it began to supply oil to the oil drillers and oil producers.
www.sturgeon.ab.ca /op/2SWP/rwstory.html   (583 words)

  
 River and Creek Segments Requiring Gates in Fences
Cheyenne River, from Hat Creek confluence to Angostura Dam; from the Fall River-Custer county line to SD Hwy 44; from confluence with Belle Fourche River to the Missouri River;
Moreau River, from Highway 63 to the Missouri River;
Belle Fourche River from Irrigation District diversion dam to SD Hwy 79.
www.state.sd.us /denr/des/waterrights/fencemap.htm   (264 words)

  
 Redwater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Carnen, a river in the fiction of J. Tolkien
Redwater provincial electoral district in Alberta, and the town of Redwater, Alberta it is named after.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Redwater   (92 words)

  
 Missouri River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The headwaters of the Missouri are in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, near the continental divide.
The song is set in 1942, during training for World War II, but its image of a foolish captain who pushes his men further and further into a hopeless situation was clearly meant to parallel the Vietnam War.
Each verse of the American folk song Oh Shenandoah ends with the line "Across the wide Missouri".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missouri_River   (654 words)

  
 Vision 2003 | Research and Scholarship at The University of Montana-Missoula
Some of the blame can be attributed to dams or diversions, which change the natural flow of rivers, and to bank stabilization to protect roads, bridges and homes, all of which interfere with the conditions cottonwoods need to get started.
New tree generations also may be impacted by naturally occurring salt concentrations — particularly along the upper portion of the stream — and the many small water developments that together may be reducing the incidence of big floods required to deposit new gravel bars.
The North Fork of the Blackfoot River runs along the edge of the flat, and a number of irrigation ditches were put in decades ago to divert water to farmers' fields.
www.umt.edu /urelations/vision/2003/18cotton.htm   (1210 words)

  
 Our Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Redwater is home to 2053 People and 140 +/- businesses, including major industry.
Redwater has all the services needed to support your local business.
Redwater employers find it easy to get and keep the kind of staff they need - staff with the skills and work attitudes that make a business profitable.
www.town.redwater.ab.ca /business.html   (490 words)

  
 History
The Redwater River, flowing north through McCone County,and emptying into the Missouri River, was part of the Fort.
Along the Redwater River, the XIT Ranch introduced the Texas Longhorn.
Fort Peck Dam, the first of the great Missouri Rivers dams, employed hundreds of workers in the northern part of the county.
www.circle.visitmt.com /history.htm   (484 words)

  
 Watershed Groups Edit
The river begins in Prairie County, flows north into McCone County, then northeasterly past the communities of Brockway and Circle and about 20 miles east of Vida.
The Redwater River merges with the Missouri River near Poplar.
The result of that assessment determined the upper part of Redwater River impairements were due to natural sources.
water.montana.edu /watersheds/groups/edit.asp?groupID=35   (323 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: SULPHUR RIVER
The Sulphur River rises at the junction of the North Sulphur and South Sulphur rivers, two miles south of Cunningham at the Lamar-Delta county line (at 33°23' N, 95°21' W).
The river, which serves as the county line of a number of Northeast Texas counties, enters Delta County just east of its origin and exits that county 3½ miles southeast of Cunningham.
Dammed six miles southeast of Redwater, the river serves as the lake's main water supply.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/rns19.html   (286 words)

  
 Powder River Ranch Realty: Montana Ranches for Sale
Many acres of river bottom timber and brush land, cedar breaks, rimrocks, and pine trees that have never been logged constitute the rest of the acreage.
of Musselshell River frontage and 250± acres of timber.
YELLOWSTONE RIVER WILDLIFE HAVEN Glendive, MT-240± acres with 160 deeded, ¾ miles Yellowstone River frontage, 8-acre lake, 1 mile live creek on north boundary, 80-acre wooded island makes this property one of a kind, has never been hunted.
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 Goose River Updates Redwater Drilling Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The production of solution gas from the Redwater property is now sufficient to justify the installation of gas gathering facilities, and Goose River has initiated pipeline design and permitting for the main gathering system.
This system is expected to initially allow the sales of gas from six of the seven wells drilled by the Company this year, and will allow the tie in of the future wells planned in the next four well program.
Additional information on these and other factors that could affect Goose River Resources' operations or financial results are included in Goose River Resources' reports file with Canadian securities regulatory authorities that may be accessed at www.sedar.com.
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 Geographical Place Names of Alberta: Redwater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This community was named for its proximity to the Redwater River, a tributary of the North Saskatchewan River.
Originally this river appeared as "Vermilion River" on David Thompson's map of 1814 but the change was made to avoid duplication.
The beds of ochre near the riverbed give the water a distinctive colour.
collections.ic.gc.ca /Ukrainian/placenames/redwater.htm   (80 words)

  
 Sicklefin chub   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The first observation of sicklefin chub in Montana was in 1979 in the middle Missouri River upstream of Fort Peck Reservoir (Gould 1981 and Gardner and Berg 1982).
As of 1997, the known range of sicklefin chub encompasses nearly 280 kilometers of river in the Missouri and Yellowstone drainages (Figure 4).
None of the irrigation withdrawl structures in the Missouri or Yellowstone rivers are not screened and fish entrainment losses could be severe under drought conditions or with additional irrigation systems.
www.fisheries.org /AFSmontana/SSCpages/sicklefin_chubstatus.htm   (855 words)

  
 Black Hills Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Redwater to Pluma line was a 24,000 volt line, built in 1907 from Redwater to Pluma to tie the two plants together.
The line was six miles long with #6 Bamp;S connected to the Redwater switch house with a substation in Belle Fourche.
The Wyoming and Missouri River Railroad extended from Belle Fourche to the coal mining town of Alladin, Wyoming, a distance of 20 miles.
www.blackhillspower.com /chapter2c.htm   (941 words)

  
 Commerce in Redwater ALBERTA Canada - Pagelite Search The Canadian Web Directory
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Redwater was incorporated as a village on December 31, 1949 and as a town on November 25, 1950.
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 Sicklefin Chub Detailed Information - Montana Animal Field Guide
Sicklefin chub are strictly confined to the main channels of large, turbid rivers where they live in a strong current over a bottom of sand or fine gravel (Pflieger 1975).
The pools created behind dams have innundated riverine habitats and replaced the river with lake conditions, which is probably unsuitable habitat for chubs.
None of the irrigation withdrawl structures in the Missouri or Yellowstone rivers are screened and fish entrainment losses could be severe under drought conditions or with additional irrigation systems (AFS website 2003).
fwp.state.mt.us /fieldguide/detail_AFCJB53030.aspx   (797 words)

  
 Redwater River Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Roe River -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is about 201 feet (61 meters) long and is recognized by the (Click link for more info and facts about Guinness Book of Records) Guinness Book of Records.
The push to get Roe River recognized came mainly from students at Lincoln elementary school in Great Falls, Montana.
The same claim is made of (A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific) Oregon's (Click link for more info and facts about D River) D River.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ro/Roe_River.htm   (160 words)

  
 The Lord of Darkness, a PBEM chronicle for the LOTR RPG
The wharf is fairly busy with river traffic, and no effort is made to intercept the boats before they dock, but the captain still seems to be upset with the state of affairs.
By carefully listening to the threads of conversations among the sailors, he is able to piece together that local river trade is apparently depressed because of a fear of war.
Men build roads inside their towns alone.” Hengel sighs audibly and laments that, for the past several months, even that river-road has been closed off to their use – and, with the northward incursions of the goblins, he fears that soon enough it will not be possible even to send messenger-riders between the three towns.
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 Missouri River - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Missouri River - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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Missouri River, Description, Popular depictions, Tributaries, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and See also.
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