The Cloquet River is a river of Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. It is the main tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

 of the St. Louis River.

Geography

The Cloquet river generally flows in a southwesterly direction which goes through Alden Lake, Island Lake Reservoir and Wood Lake before emptying into the St. Louis River.

One can separate the river into two primary stretches, the upper stretch beginning at Cloquet Lake in Lake County

Lake County, Minnesota

Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, the population was 10,866. Its county seat is Two Harbors. Lake County was founded on February 20, 1855, as Superior County, though its name was changed on March 3, of that year to St. Louis County. On March 1, 1856, St...

 as a small stream and ending at Island Lake Reservoir.

Tributaries of the Cloquet River include Us-Kab-Wan-Ka River

Us-kab-wan-ka River

Us-kab-wan-ka River is a small tributary of the Cloquet River, in northeastern Minnesota in the United States. It is approximately 21 mi long, along with its tributaries, the Us-kab-wan-ka River drains an area of 40.43 mi² . Via the Cloquet River and the St. Louis River, it is part of...

, Beaver River, and Little Cloquet River

Little Cloquet River

-See also:*List of rivers of Minnesota-References:**USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Minnesota...

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