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| Country | United States |
| State | Washington |
| Major city | Republic |
| Length | 70 mi (113 km) [1] |
| Watershed | 981 sq mi (2,541 km²) [2] |
| Source | |
| - coordinates | [3] |
| - elevation | 2,735 ft (834 m) [4] |
| Mouth | Columbia River |
| - coordinates | [3] |
| - elevation | 1,293 ft (394 m) [4] |
| Major tributaries | |
| - right | West Fork Sanpoil River |
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- For other references, see Sanpoil (disambiguation). The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Republic is a city in Ferry County, Washington, United States. A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States The kilometre ( American spelling: kilometer) symbol km is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one thousand The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The Columbia River (known as A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International Sanpoil may also refer to Sanpoil (tribe, a Salish Native American tribe San Poil Eagle, newspaper in Keller Washington
The Sanpoil River (also spelled San Poil) is a tributary of the Columbia River, in the U.S. state of Washington. A tributary is a Stream or River which flows into a mainstem (or parent river The Columbia River (known as A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Course
The Sanpoil River originates near the city of Republic, in the Okanagan Highland, east of the Okanogan River. Republic is a city in Ferry County, Washington, United States. Okanagan Highland is a plateau-like hilly area in British Columbia, Canada, and the U The Okanogan River (called the Okanagan River in Canada) is a tributary of the Columbia River, approximately 115 mi (185 km long in southern British It flows south through the Colville National Forest, Okanogan National Forest, and the Colville Indian Reservation. The Colville National Forest is a US National Forest located in northeastern Washington state The Okanogan National Forest is a US National Forest located in northern and western Okanogan County in north-central Washington State United States The Colville Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in the eastern part of the U After entering the reservation the river receives its main tributary, the West Fork Sanpoil River. It then receives a number of smaller tributaries such as Twentyone Mile Creek, Twentythree Mile Creek, and Thirty Mile Creek.
The Sanpoil River enters Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake (FDR Lake), the impounded Columbia River above Grand Coulee Dam. Franklin D Roosevelt Lake (also called Lake Roosevelt) is the Reservoir created in 1941 by the impoundment of the Columbia River by the Grand Coulee The Columbia River (known as Grand Coulee Dam is a Hydroelectric Gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U The dam impounded the last few miles of the Sanpoil River as well. This part of FDR Lake is called Sanpoil Arm.
Habitats
- mountain riparian
- mixed forest
- wetland
- freshwater marsh
Birds
- Common Loon
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Golden and Bald Eagles
- Northern Pygmy-Owl
- Black-chinned, Calliope, and Rufous Hummingbirds
- Lewis’s and Pileated Woodpeckers
- Red-naped Sapsucker
- Hammond’s, Dusky, and Pacific-slope Flycatchers
- Cassin’s Vireo
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Western Bluebird
- Northern Waterthrush
See also
References
- ^ Grande Ronde River, The Columbia Gazetteer of North America
- ^ San Poil, Intermountain Province Plan, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
- ^ a b USGS GNIS: Sanpoil River, USGS, GNIS
- ^ a b Google Earth elevation for GNIS coordinates. The United States Geological Survey ( USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. The Geographic Names Information System ( GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout Google Earth is a Virtual globe program that was originally called Earth Viewer and was created by Keyhole Inc, a company acquired by Google in 2004 The Geographic Names Information System ( GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout
Further reading
- Atwater, Brian F. Pleistocene Glacial-Lake Deposits of the Sanpoil River Valley, Northeastern Washington. U. S. Geological Survey bulletin, 1661. Washington: G. P. O. , 1986.
- Atwater, Brian F. Guidebook for 1983 Friends of the Pleistocene Field Trip to the Sanpoil River Valley, Northeastern Washington. U. S. Geological Survey open-file report, 83-456. Menlo Park, CA: U. S. Geological Survey, 1983.
- Geological Survey (U. S. ), and L. L. Bryan. Plan and Profile of Hall Creek, Mouth to Mile 4 and Dam Sites on Sanpoil River, Washington. [Washington, D. C. ]: Dept. of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey, 1930.
- Juul, Steve Thorvald Julius, et al. Nonpoint Pollution at the Headwaters of the Sanpoil River in Ferry County, Washington. Pullman, Wash: State of Washington Water Research Center, 1993.
- Pacific Northwest River Basins Commission. River Mile Index: Moses Coulee, Crab & Foster Creeks, Okanogan (Okanagan), Sanpoil, Colville & Kettle Rivers. A River mile is a measure of distance in Miles along a River from its mouth. [S. l. ]: The Committee, 1968.
- Trotter, Patrick C. Genetic and Phenotype Catalog of Native Resident Trout of the Interior Columbia River Basin: FY-99 Report : Populations of the Pend Oreille, Kettle, and Sanpoil River Basins of Colville National Forest. [Portland, OR: Bonneville Power Administration, 2001.
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