# Knife River **Knife River** is a river of [[Minnesota]]; in the Great Lakes basin it drains to [[Lake_Superior|Lake Superior]]; in the Gulf of Mexico basin it is a tributary of [[Snake_River|Snake River]]; in the Hudson Bay basin it drains to [[Rainy_Lake|Rainy Lake]]. It belongs to the [[WT!Minnesota_Great_Lakes_Basin|Great Lakes basin]] · [[WT!Minnesota_Gulf_of_Mexico_Basin|Gulf of Mexico basin]] · [[WT!Minnesota_Hudson_Bay_Basin|Hudson Bay basin]] — part of the Minnesota hydrology set that feeds [[PORTAL_WT!Thury_Hydrodynamics_Compendium|the Thury Hydrodynamics Compendium]]. > **Note — shared name.** In the Minnesota rivers list, *Knife River* names more than one distinct stream, one per basin above; this stub gathers them pending Wikipedia disambiguation (e.g. `Knife_River_(disambiguation)`). ## Basin Drainage basin: [[WT!Minnesota_Great_Lakes_Basin|Great Lakes basin]] · [[WT!Minnesota_Gulf_of_Mexico_Basin|Gulf of Mexico basin]] · [[WT!Minnesota_Hudson_Bay_Basin|Hudson Bay basin]]. Every drop routes to Lake Superior / the Mississippi River / the Red River of the North and the Rainy River on its way out of the state. Basin hubs: [[WT!Minnesota_Great_Lakes_Basin]], [[WT!Minnesota_Gulf_of_Mexico_Basin]], [[WT!Minnesota_Hudson_Bay_Basin]]. ## Flows into - **Great Lakes basin:** [[Lake_Superior|Lake Superior]]. - **Gulf of Mexico basin:** [[Snake_River|Snake River]]. - **Hudson Bay basin:** [[Rainy_Lake|Rainy Lake]]. ## Related Parent list: [[List_of_rivers_of_Minnesota]] · Basin hubs: [[WT!Minnesota_Great_Lakes_Basin]], [[WT!Minnesota_Gulf_of_Mexico_Basin]], [[WT!Minnesota_Hudson_Bay_Basin]] · Spine: [[PORTAL_WT!Thury_Hydrodynamics_Compendium]]. ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_River) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Knife_River) ## Previous hub tags Basin: Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Hudson Bay. Source list: [[List_of_rivers_of_Minnesota]]. Legacy hubs: none (Minnesota rivers seed, 2026-08-05). --- *Stub seeded 2026-08-05 from [[List_of_rivers_of_Minnesota]], linking [[PORTAL_WT!Thury_Hydrodynamics_Compendium]]. Wikipedia slug pending disambiguation verification (Mac network lane). Text pairs with [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_River), licensed [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).*