The Little Cottonwood River is a tributary of the Minnesota River, 83 miles (134 km) long, in southwestern Minnesota in the United States. Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 230 square miles (600 km2) in an agricultural region.
The Little Cottonwood River rises south of Jeffers in Amboy Township in Cottonwood County, beginning as a drainage ditch constructed in 1997. In its upper course the stream flows swiftly in a northeastward course and passes rock outcrops, including the Jeffers Petroglyphs. It flows generally east-northea...
Click any point for details. Sections without stored geometry are drawn as straight put-in → take-out lines — actual courses follow the river.