Aroostook River

Aroostook River
Aroostook River
	Aroostook River at Washburn, Maine
	Aroostook River watershed
Location
Country	United States, Canada
State	Maine
Province	New Brunswick
Cities	Ashland, Maine, Washburn, Maine, Presque Isle, Maine, Caribou, Maine, Fort Farfield, Maine
Physical characteristics
Source confluence	Millinocket Stream and Munsungan Stream
• location	Maine Township 8, Range 8, WELS, Penobscot County, Maine
• coordinates	46°20′40″N 68°48′04″W / 46.3445°N 68.8011°W
Mouth	Saint John River (New Brunswick)
• location	Aroostook, NB
• coordinates	46°48′36″N 67°42′58″W / 46.810123°N 67.71620°W
• elevation	330 ft (100 m)
Length	112 mi (180 km)
Basin size	2,442.7 sq mi (6,327 km2)
Discharge
• location	Masardis, Maine
• average	1,506 cu ft/s (42.6 m3/s)
• minimum	41 cu ft/s (1.2 m3/s)
• maximum	29,500 cu ft/s (840 m3/s)
Discharge
• location	Washburn, Maine
• average	2,696 cu ft/s (76.3 m3/s)
• minimum	75 cu ft/s (2.1 m3/s)
• maximum	49,500 cu ft/s (1,400 m3/s)
	Watershed data.

The Aroostook River is a 112-mile-long (180 km)^[2] tributary of the Saint John River in the U.S. state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Its basin is the largest sub-drainage of the Saint John River.^[3]

The name is derived from the Malecite name Wool-ahs-took, translated by Ganong as "good river for everything". It appears as Arassatuk (DeRozier, 1699).^[4]

^ University of Maine. "Watershed Overview and Data Access: Aroostook." Watershed Code 01010004. Accessed 2010-02-17.
^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 22, 2011
^ Gibbs, K. Elizabeth; Bradeen, Billie; Boland, Dan (September 2004). "Spatial and Temporal Segregation Among Six Species of Coexisting Ophiogomphus (Odonata: Gomphidae) in the Aroostook River, Maine". Northeastern Naturalist. 11 (3): 295–312. doi:10.1656/1092-6194(2004)011[0295:SATSAS]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1938-5307. JSTOR 3858420.
^ Hamilton, William (1978). The Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names. Toronto: Macmillan. p. 70. ISBN 0-7715-9754-1.

[1] University of Maine. "Watershed Overview and Data Access: Aroostook." Watershed Code 01010004. Accessed 2010-02-17.

[NHD-2] U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 22, 2011

[3] Gibbs, K. Elizabeth; Bradeen, Billie; Boland, Dan (September 2004). "Spatial and Temporal Segregation Among Six Species of Coexisting Ophiogomphus (Odonata: Gomphidae) in the Aroostook River, Maine". Northeastern Naturalist. 11 (3): 295–312. doi:10.1656/1092-6194(2004)011[0295:SATSAS]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1938-5307. JSTOR 3858420.

[4] Hamilton, William (1978). The Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names. Toronto: Macmillan. p. 70. ISBN 0-7715-9754-1.

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