# Redeye River

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The **Redeye River** is a [tributary](/source/Tributary) of the [Leaf River](/source/Leaf_River_(Minnesota)), 73 miles (117 km) long, in central [Minnesota](/source/Minnesota) in the [United States](/source/United_States). Via the Leaf and [Crow Wing](/source/Crow_Wing_River) Rivers, it is part of the [watershed](/source/Drainage_basin) of the [Mississippi River](/source/Mississippi_River), draining an area of 222 square miles (570 km2) in a rural region. The river's name comes from the Native Americans of the area, who saw many red-eye fish in the river.[4]

## Geography

The Redeye River rises in a [morainic](/source/Moraine) region,[5] issuing from Wolf Lake in [Toad Lake Township](/source/Toad_Lake_Township,_Minnesota) in southeastern [Becker County](/source/Becker_County,_Minnesota). It flows generally southeastwardly through northeastern [Otter Tail](/source/Otter_Tail_County,_Minnesota) and central [Wadena](/source/Wadena_County,_Minnesota) Counties, through the city of [Sebeka](/source/Sebeka,_Minnesota), and enters the Leaf River in [Bullard Township](/source/Bullard_Township,_Minnesota) in southeastern Wadena County,[6] 8 miles (13 km) upstream of the Leaf River's mouth at the Crow Wing River.[1] The river's course is within the North [Central Hardwood Forest](/source/Central_Hardwood_Forest) [ecoregion](/source/Ecoregion), which is characterized by [hardwood](/source/Hardwood) forests of [maple](/source/Maple) and [basswood](/source/Tilia) mixed with [conifers](/source/Conifer), on [outwash plains](/source/Outwash_plain) and moraines amid flat [glacial lakes](/source/Glacial_lake).[7]

## See also

- [List of rivers in Minnesota](/source/List_of_rivers_in_Minnesota)

## References

1. Sanocki, C. A. & B. C. Fischer (2000). ["Physical Characteristics of Stream Subbasins in the Redeye (Leaf) River Basin, Central Minnesota"](https://web.archive.org/web/20060925210702/http://mn.water.usgs.gov/pubs/00-234.pdf). [United States Geological Survey](/source/United_States_Geological_Survey). Archived from [the original](https://mn.water.usgs.gov/pubs/00-234.pdf) on 2006-09-25. Retrieved 2007-06-17.

1. "Geographic Names Information System entry for Redeye River (Feature ID #649894)". [Geographic Names Information System](/source/Geographic_Names_Information_System). Retrieved 2007-06-17.

1. [Google Earth](/source/Google_Earth) elevation for [GNIS](/source/GNIS) coordinates. Retrieved on 2007-06-17.

1. Upham, Warren. ["Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia."](http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/waterway.cfm?PlaceNameID=7976&BookCodeID=53&County=80&SendingPage=Results.cfm). [Minnesota Historical Society](/source/Minnesota_Historical_Society). Retrieved 2010-04-02.

1. Waters, Thomas F. (2006). ["The Crow Wing: Oxcart to Canoe"](https://archive.org/details/streamsriversofm0000wate/page/184). *The Streams and Rivers of Minnesota*. Minneapolis: [University of Minnesota Press](/source/University_of_Minnesota_Press). pp. [184–194](https://archive.org/details/streamsriversofm0000wate/page/184). ISBN 0-8166-0960-8.

1. *Minnesota Atlas & Gazetteer*. Yarmouth, Me.: [DeLorme](/source/DeLorme). 1994. pp. 53, 60–61. ISBN 0-89933-222-6.

1. ["Upper Mississippi River Basin."](https://web.archive.org/web/20070618074943/http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/basins/uppermiss/index.html). Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. 2000. pp. [Upper Mississippi River Basin Water Quality Plan, Headwaters to the Rum River – Anoka, Section III: Upper Mississippi River Basin](http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/basins/uppermiss/bid–section3.pdf). Archived from [the original](http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/basins/uppermiss/index.html) on 2007-06-18. Retrieved 2007-06-17.

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