Little Cedar River (Iowa-Minnesota)
Encyclopedia
The Little Cedar River is an 82.4 miles (132.6 km) river of Iowa
and Minnesota
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The Little Cedar rises in Mower County, Minnesota
, and flows primarily south into Iowa, emptying into the Cedar River.
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
and Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
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The Little Cedar rises in Mower County, Minnesota
Mower County, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 38,603 people, 15,582 households, and 10,315 families residing in the county. The population density was 54 people per square mile . There were 16,251 housing units at an average density of 23 per square mile...
, and flows primarily south into Iowa, emptying into the Cedar River.