The Big Sandy River (also called Big Sandy Creek) is a 141-mile-long (227km)[1] tributary of the Green River in Wyoming in the United States.
Big Sandy Creek, Wyoming
Course
It rises in eastern Sublette County, on the west side of the continental divide in the southern Wind River Range, in the Bridger Wilderness Area of the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
It flows south, southwest, southeast, then southwest, past the town of Farson and joins the Green in western Sweetwater County.
Above Farson, it is dammed to form the Big Sandy Reservoir.
Big Sandy River streamflow near Farson in September 2002 during drought conditions.
See also
Green River (Colorado River) topics
List of Wyoming rivers
List of tributaries of the Colorado River
Tributaries of the Colorado River in Wyoming
References
U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National MapArchived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 18, 2011
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