Dead River
The Dead River, sometimes called the West Branch, is a 42.6-mile-long river in central Maine in the United States. Its source is Flagstaff Lake, where its two main tributaries, South Branch Dead River and North Branch Dead River, join.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Petersent, Public domain.
- Type: Stream
- Description: tributary of the Kennebec River in Maine, United States
- Also known as: “West Branch”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include The Forks and West Forks.
The Forks
Photo: Eric Moreno, CC BY 2.0.
The Forks is a plantation in Somerset County, Maine, United States. The population was 48 at the 2020 census.
West Forks
Photo: Sarah and Jason, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Forks is a city in Somerset County, in the Kennebec and Moose River Valleys region of Maine.
Dead River
- Categories: watercourse and body of water
- Location: Somerset, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Dead River” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dead River (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, Maine, Somerset County, lat 45,33, long -69,97)”
- Cebuano: “Dead River”
- Chinese: “死河”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ميت”
- French: “rivière Dead”
- French: “Rivière Dead”
- Persian: “دد ریور (کنبک ریور)”
- Persian: “دد ریور”
- Serbian: “Дед”
- Slovenian: “Dead River”
- Slovenian: “Dead”
- Slovenian: “reka Dead”
- Tajik: “Дд ревир (кнбк ревир)”
- Tajik: “Дид”
- Venetian: “Dead River”
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