River
Cimarron River
1,123 km from source to mouth · United States.
United StatesFlows into Arkansas River
In numbers
Length
1,123km
Average flow
1,100m³/s
Basin
49,080km²
Drop
1,078m
from 1,301 m to 223 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,123 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,301 m
- 822 kmGuthrie11,270 people
- 910 kmAllen Williamson Bridge
- 913 kmCushing Lake1.5 km²
- 1,044 kmKeystone Lake80 km²
- 1,123 kmArkansas Riverat 223 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Tributary of the Arkansas River in the central United States
At the mouth it carries 1,147 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 2.2 seconds. It drops from 1,301 m to 223 m, 1.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 49,080 km², about the size of SK. 497,000 people live in it. Highest water: from May to July; lowest: February. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (19% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- GuthrieLargest city on its banks · 11,270 people
- Stillwater Regional Airport (SWO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 44 km from the cityCar hire at OKC airport (Oklahoma City)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water7 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- April, June and from September to OctoberThe best months to visit
Cimarron River, month by month
Highest water: from May to July
Lowest water: February. Best months to visit: April, June and from September to October.
From about 22 m³/s in the lowest month to 97 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Cimarron River: the basin in numbers
44,637 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 497,000people live in the basin
- 11/km²people per km²
- 796maverage altitude of the basin
- 584mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 13.5°Caverage air temperature
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.3km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 8% Forest
- 47% Cropland
- 35% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Cimarron River: what you find on the way
- 7Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Cimarron River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
2lakes on its wayLakeyas
7mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (2)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Cushing Lakekm 7451.5km²
- Keystone Lakekm 85280km²
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Mountains at the source (7)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Big Canyon Mesa13 km away
- Middle Mesa9.7 km away
- Potter Rincon13 km away
- Red Hill6.6 km away
- Sugarloaf Butte9.9 km away
- Robbers Roost Peak6.4 km away
- Little Black Mesa13 km away
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Cimarron River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Arkansas RiverUnited States2,364 km240 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: North Fork Cimarron River
In the same basin
United States3,766 km12,700 m³/sMissouri RiverUnited States3,726 km2,500 m³/sOhio RiverUnited States1,579 km8,000 m³/sTennessee RiverUnited States1,049 km2,000 m³/sRed RiverUnited States2,189 km1,900 m³/sYellowstone RiverUnited States1,114 km390 m³/sPlatte RiverUnited States500 km200 m³/sCanadian RiverUnited States1,458 km200 m³/sIllinois RiverUnited States432 km660 m³/sAllegheny RiverUnited States523 km560 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1092055) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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