The Rice River is a 57.1-mile-long (91.9 km)[1] tributary of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota, United States.[2] It rises in southeastern Aitkin County at the outlet of Porcupine Lake and flows generally north into Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge, where it turns west and flows to the Mississippi 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Aitkin.
The Rice River takes its name from the abundant wild rice that once fed Native Americans.[3]
^U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National MapArchived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed December 26, 2012
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