Yellowstone Rivers

Flow Accumulation · 30 m DEM

What you're looking at

Water leaving Yellowstone goes to three different oceans. The Yellowstone drains north to the Missouri → Mississippi → Gulf of Mexico. The Madison joins the same system. The Snake flows south then west to the Columbia → Pacific. Pairs with /parks/yellowstone.

Watershed Stats

SourceUSGS 3DEP 30 m

Stream segments13,244 (vector)

Max Strahler order7

Pairs with/parks/yellowstone

NotableContinental Divide passes through park

AlgorithmD8 + Strahler

ToolWhitebox Tools

Major Rivers

Yellowstone FallsS6
Madison JunctionS5
Old Faithful (Firehole)S4
Snake R. (south entrance)S5

How it works

The Continental Divide traverses the park diagonally. The vast Yellowstone caldera sits as a broad, gentle depression — visible in the flow accumulation as a region of low-intensity radial drainage from the caldera rim outward.

Same engine, any scale: this is the same pipeline that renders a 160-acre RTK survey at sub-meter resolution. Only the bounding box changes.

Sources & tools listed at /data