Row River

Water type: River
Basin: Coast Fork Willamette River -> Willamette River -> Columbia River -> Columbia River Estuary -> Pacific Ocean -> Planet Earth
Continent:
North America
Climate:
Subtropical
Country:
United States of America
Artificial lakes
The Row River is a river, approximately 20 miles (32 km) long, in Lane County, Oregon, United States.
It rises in the Cascade Range and flows into the Coast Fork Willamette River near Cottage Grove. The stream was originally known as the ’East Fork Coast Fork’, but was later renamed after a dispute (row) between neighbors and brothers-in-law George Clark and Joseph Southwell over ’trespassing’ livestock. Clark was killed as a result of the row. The name rhymes with ’cow’ rather than with ’slow’. A post office named Row River operated from 1911 to 1914 a little north of the present site of Dorena.