Yellowstone River
The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 671 miles long, in the Western United States. Considered the principal tributary of the upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountains…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: tributary of the Missouri River in North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming in the United States
- Also known as: “Aahkawirahkata”, “E-chee-dick-karsh-ah-shay”, “Encheda-cahchi-ichi”, “Mi tse a-da-zi”, “Mi-tsi-a-da-zi”, “Moehe’yoe”, “Pierre Jaune”, “River a la Biche”, “River aux Roches Jaunes”, “River Rockybone”, “River Yellow Rock”, “Roche Jaune”, “the Yellowstone”, “Waahukaahaanu”, and “Yellowstone”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Buford.
Fort Buford
Park
Photo: FlintWestwood, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Buford was a United States Army Post at the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers in Dakota Territory, present day North Dakota, and the site of Sitting Bull's surrender in 1881.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buford.
Buford
Village
Buford is an unincorporated community in Williams County, North Dakota, United States. It is the nearest community to the Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site.
Yellowstone River
- Categories: river, tourist destination, and body of water
- Location: McKenzie, North Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Yellowstone River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Yellowstone River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Yellowstonerivier”
- Arabic: “نهر يلوستون”
- Armenian: “Ելլուսթոն”
- Asturian: “Ríu Yellowstone”
- Azerbaijani: “Yellouston çayı”
- Basque: “Yellowstone (ibaia)”
- Basque: “Yellowstone”
- Belarusian: “Елаўстан”
- Belarusian: “Рака Елаўстан”
- Bulgarian: “Йелоустоун”
- Catalan: “Riu Yellowstone”
- Catalan: “Yellowstone River”
- Catalan: “Yellowstone”
- Cebuano: “Yellowstone River (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, North Dakota)”
- Cebuano: “Yellowstone River”
- Cheyenne: “Mo’éheo’hé’e”
- Chinese: “黃石河”
- Chuvash: “Йеллоустон”
- Cornish: “Dowr Yellowstone”
- Croatian: “Yellowstone”
- Czech: “Yellowstone”
- Danish: “Yellowstone floden”
- Danish: “Yellowstone River”
- Danish: “Yellowstone-floden”
- Danish: “Yellowstonefloden”
- Dutch: “Yellowstone (rivier)”
- Dutch: “Yellowstone river”
- Dutch: “Yellowstone”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر يلوستون”
- Estonian: “Yellowstone’i jõgi”
- Finnish: “Yellowstone”
- French: “Yellowstone River”
- French: “Yellowstone”
- Galician: “Río Yellowstone”
- German: “Yellowstone River”
- German: “Yellowstone-Fluss”
- German: “Yellowstone-River”
- Hebrew: “ילוסטון”
- Hebrew: “נהר ילוסטון”
- Interlingua: “Yellowstone (fluvio)”
- Interlingua: “Yellowstone”
- Irish: “Abhainn Yellowstone”
- Italian: “Yellowstone”
- Japanese: “イエローストーン川”
- Korean: “옐로스톤강”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Yellowstonê”
- Lithuanian: “Jeloustonas”
- Lithuanian: “Jeloustounas”
- Mingrelian: “იელოუსტოუნი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “იელოუსტოუნი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yellowstone River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yellowstone”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yellowstoneelva”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yellowstoneelven”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yellowstone-elva”
- Norwegian: “Yellowstone River”
- Persian: “رود یلواستون”
- Polish: “Yellowstone River”
- Polish: “Yellowstone”
- Portuguese: “rio Yellowstone”
- Portuguese: “Rio Yellowstone”
- Romanian: “Râul Yellowstone”
- Russian: “Йеллоустон”
- Russian: “Йеллоустоун”
- Scots: “Yellowstone River”
- Serbian: “Јелоустоун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Yellowstone”
- Slovenian: “reka Yellowstone”
- Slovenian: “Yellowstone River”
- Slovenian: “Yellowstone”
- South Azerbaijani: “یلواستون چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Yellowstone”
- Spanish: “Río Yellowstone”
- Swedish: “Yellowstone River”
- Swedish: “Yellowstonefloden”
- Tamil: “மஞ்சப்பாறை ஆறு”
- Turkish: “Yellowstone Irmağı”
- Ukrainian: “Єллоустон (річка)”
- Ukrainian: “Єллоустон”
- Uzbek: “Yellouston”
- Venetian: “Yellowstone”
- Vietnamese: “sông Yellowstone”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Yellowstone”
- Welsh: “Afon Yellowstone”
- Western Frisian: “Yellowstone”
- Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ ییلوسٹون”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Dore and Marley.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center and Figley Coulee.
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