Leaf River (Minnesota)

The Leaf River is a tributary of the Crow Wing River, about 50 mi (80 km) long, in west-central Minnesota in the United States. Via the Crow Wing, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.

Course

The Leaf flows from Gourd Lake in eastern Otter Tail County and flows generally eastwardly through southern Wadena County, through Grass, East Leaf and West Leaf Lakes and past the town of Bluffton. It flows into the Crow Wing River from the east in Thomastown Township, about 10 mi (16 km) north-northwest of the town of Staples and about 1 mi (2 km) upstream of the mouth of the Partridge River.

The Leaf's largest tributaries are the Wing River and the Redeye River, both of which join it in Wadena County.

Culture

Leaf River serves as land-cession boundary for the 1847 Treaty of Washington, signed between the Pillager Chippewas and the United States, and the for the land-cession boundaries for the 1855 Treaty of Washington, signed between the Mississippi Chippewas, Pillager Chippewas and the United States. The land ceded to the United States by the Pillagers in 1847 was sold to the Menomini, but the Menomini refuted removal out of Wisconsin and subsequently sold the land to the United States in 1854.

ee also

*List of Minnesota rivers