| Us-kab-wan-ka River | |
| Name Other: | Ush-kab-wan River |
| Pushpin Map: | Minnesota |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Mouth of the Us-kab-wan-ka River |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | United States |
| Subdivision Type2: | State |
| Subdivision Name2: | Minnesota |
| Source1 Location: | Rush Lake |
| Mouth Location: | Twig, Taft |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 46.9719°N -92.3411°W |
| River System: | Cloquet River |
Us-kab-wan-ka River, also known as the Ush-kab-wan River, is a small tributary of the Cloquet River in northeast Minnesota in the United States. It is approximately long.[1] Along with its tributaries, the Us-kab-wan-ka drains an area of .
Its name in the Ojibwe language is askibwaanikaa-ziibi (river full of Jerusalem artichokes), having the identical name in Ojibwe as the nearby Artichoke River.
Via the Cloquet River and the Saint Louis River, it is part of the watershed of Lake Superior. It flows through Whiteface Reservoir Unorganized Territory and Grand Lake Township in southern Saint Louis County.
The river begins at the outlet of Rush Lake in Cloquet Valley State Forest and flows generally southwest, then southward. It flows into the Cloquet River, two miles south of Taft.