Nooksack River

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The North Fork Nooksack River rises at the Nooksack Cirque east of Mount Shuksan within the western part of North Cascades National Park in central Whatcom County.

adjacent to

Deming, Washington

cities

deposits

Sternberg (1967) has estimated the river to deposit 690,000 cubic meters of sediment into Bellingham Bay annually.

eastbound on the Mount Baker Highway

Nugents Corner

Hamlet

Nugents Corner

hazards map

Mount Baker, WA simplified hazards map (usgs.gov)

maps

meander

The Nooksack River has flowed between Lummi Bay, north of the Lummi Peninsula, and Bellingham Bay in the recent past (Easterbrook, 1973). At the turn of the century, the course of the river changed so that the main flow went into Bellingham Bay where it remains today.

middle fork

Middle Fork Nooksack River

Mount Baker

Looking up the river to Mount Baker

mouth

Bellingham Bay

Nooksack Falls

At Nooksack Falls, the river flows through a narrow valley and drops freely 88 feet (27 m) into a deep rocky river canyon. The falls are viewable from the forested cover near the cliff edge.

north fork

North Fork Nooksack River

OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3459166

original channel

Lummi River

photographs

random

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reservation

Nooksack Indian Reservation

river delta

Nooksack River Delta

river in

rocks

Rocks in the Nooksack River

source

The North Fork Nooksack River rises at the Nooksack Cirque east of Mount Shuksan within the western part of North Cascades National Park in central Whatcom County.

south fork

South Fork Nooksack River

southbound on Bellingham Subdivision

Bellingham, Washington

state route

Washington State Route 542

tagged

Estimating Low-Flow Frequency Statistics and Hydrologic Analysis of Selected Streamflow-Gaging Stations, Nooksack River Basin, Northwestern Washington and Canada (pubs.usgs.gov)
Racehorse Creek (sir20095170.pdf) The Racehorse Creek subbasin is about 11 mi2 in size, and is located in the northeastern part of the Nooksack River basin on the northern slope of Slide Mountain in the North Fork Nooksack River basin. This mountain stream subbasin is carved through a mantle of glacial sediments and into bedrock composed of massive sandstone, conglomerate, and shale (Easterbrook and others, 2007).
The Mount Baker Highway was constructed by Whatcom County in 1893 as a wagon road traveling northeast from Bellingham along the Nooksack River through Deming and Kendall to Maple Falls.

tags

river

tributary

Ten Mile Creek

tributary of

Bellingham Bay

vicinity

Nooksack, Washington

vicinity to

Mount Baker

waterfall

Nooksack Falls

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1996433

Wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nooksack_River

Wikipedia

Nooksack River (Wikipedia) The Nooksack River is a river in western Whatcom County of the northwestern U.S. state of Washington, draining extensive valley systems within the North Cascades around Mount Shuksan, Mount Baker and the Twin Sisters, and a portion of Fraser Lowland south of the Canada–United States border.