Coast Fork Willamette River

Coast Fork Willamette River
300px The Coast Fork Willamette River
Name origin: Willamette is from a similar Clackamas Indian village name
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Lane
Tributaries
- right	Row River
Source	Confluence of Big River and Garoutte Creek
- location	Calapooya Mountains, Oregon
- elevation	990 ft (302 m)
- coordinates
Mouth	Willamette River
- location	near Eugene and Springfield, Oregon
- elevation	436 ft (133 m)
- coordinates
Length	40 mi (64 km)
Basin	666 sq mi (1,725 km2)
Discharge	for Goshen, 6.4 miles (10.3 km) from the mouth
- average	1,558 cu ft/s (44 m3/s)
- max	58,500 cu ft/s (1,657 m3/s)
- min	36 cu ft/s (1 m3/s)
Location of the mouth of the Coast Fork Willamette River in Oregon

The Coast Fork Willamette River is one of two forks that unite to form the Willamette River in western Oregon in the United States. It is about 40 miles (64 km) long, draining an area of the mountains at the south end of the Willamette Valley south of Eugene.

Course

The Coast Fork Willamette River is formed in southwestern Lane County, in the Calapooya Mountains, by the confluence of the Little River and the Big River. The Coast Fork flows north through the mountains, through the Cottage Grove Lake reservoir, to Cottage Grove, where it receives the Row River from the southeast. It continues north past Creswell and joins the Middle Fork from the south, about 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Eugene, to form the Willamette.

See also

• List of rivers of Oregon

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.
• The map includes river-mile markers from mouth to source.