Seboeis River Explained

Seboeis River
Mouth Coordinates:45.9354°N -68.6389°W
Subdivision Type1:Country

The Seboeis River is a river in Penobscot County, Maine. The river is the outflow of Snowshoe Lake (46.2447°N -68.6175°W) in Maine Township 7, Range 7, WELS; Snowshoe Lake is fed via a short stream from Grand Lake Seboeis. The river runs [1] south — through White Horse Lake, Seboeis Deadwater, Upper Seboeis River Gorge, and Gagnon Flat — to its confluence with the East Branch of the Penobscot River in T.3 R.7 WELS.

Grand Lake Seboeis

Grand Lake Seboeis
Coords:46.3°N -107°W
Pushpin Map:Maine
Basin Countries:United States
Length:6.3miles[2]
Area:[3]
Max-Depth:33feet[4]
Volume:109085acre.ft
Elevation:728feet

Grand Lake Seboeis forms the headwaters of the Seboeis River and is the largest lake in the Seboeis River watershed. A central narrows separates the southern and northern basins of the lake located in Maine range 7 townships 7 and 8, respectively. The south end of the lake overflows into Snowshoe Lake. Tributaries to the lake include Batch Brook, Jones Brook, Dead Brook, Coombs Brook, and the Wadleigh Deadwater.[2] Stocking has introduced smallmouth bass to the native chain pickerel population.[4]

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  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 22, 2011
  2. Book: The Maine Atlas and Gazetteer . DeLorme Mapping Company . Thirteenth . 1988 . Freeport, Maine . 57 . 0-89933-035-5.
  3. Web site: Maine Lakes: Morphometry and Geographic Information. 2008-07-31. Maine Depts. of Environmental Protection and Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. 2005-08-04. Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, The University of Maine. https://web.archive.org/web/20060903111335/http://www.pearl.maine.edu/Browseglobal.asp?PNI=LAKES_STREAMS&NoOfInputs=0&mode=DATA&TABLENAME=ADMIN_GMC03&action=DISPLAYFIELDS. 2006-09-03. dead.
  4. Web site: Grand Lake Seboeis . Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife . State of Maine . 7 May 2016 .