Cobb River | |
Pushpin Map: | Minnesota |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Mouth of Cobb River |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | United States |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | Minnesota |
Subdivision Type3: | Counties |
Subdivision Name3: | Blue Earth, Waseca, Fairbault, and Freeborn Counties |
Length: | 78.6adj=midNaNadj=mid |
Progression: | Cobb River→ Le Sueur River→ Minnesota River→ Mississippi River→ Gulf of Mexico |
River System: | Le Sueur River |
Tributaries Left: | Little Cobb River |
The Cobb River (also known as the Big Cobb River) and its tributary the Little Cobb River are small rivers in southern Minnesota in the United States. The Cobb River is a 78.6adj=midNaNadj=mid[1] tributary of the Le Sueur River. Via the Le Sueur, Blue Earth and Minnesota rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
The Cobb River rises at the outlet of Freeborn Lake in northwestern Freeborn County and flows generally northwestwardly through northeastern Faribault, southwestern Waseca, and southwestern Blue Earth counties. It flows into the Le Sueur River from the south, about 6miles south of Mankato.
In Blue Earth County it collects the Little Cobb River, which rises in southwestern Waseca County. The Little Cobb flows generally westward to its confluence with the Big Cobb River.[1]
The Ziegler's Ford Bridge, built in 1904 over the Cobb River, is an example of the pin-connected Pratt through truss bridges once common in Minnesota, and one of the few built by a company based outside of Minneapolis–Saint Paul.[2] It was removed in 1995.[3]