| Jarbidge River | |
|---|---|
 View down the Jarbidge River near its confluence with the East Fork Jarbidge River | |
  Location of the mouth of the Jarbidge River in Idaho  Jarbidge River (the United States) | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Idaho, Nevada |
| Counties | Owyhee County, Idaho, Elko County, Nevada |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Jarbidge Lake |
| • location | Jarbidge Mountains, Elko County, Nevada |
| • coordinates | 41°46′27″N 115°22′21″W / 41.77417°N 115.37250°W[2] |
| • elevation | 9,357 ft (2,852 m)[2] |
| Mouth | Bruneau River |
• location | Bruneau – Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness, Owyhee County, Idaho |
• coordinates | 42°19′45″N 115°39′09″W / 42.32917°N 115.65250°W[1] |
• elevation | 3,707 ft (1,130 m)[1] |
| Length | 52 mi (84 km)[3] |
| Basin size | 660 sq mi (1,700 km2)[4] |
| Type | Wild |
| Designated | March 30, 2009 |
The Jarbidge River is a 51.8-mile-long (83.4 km),[3] high elevation river in Elko County, Nevada, and Owyhee County, Idaho, in the United States. The Jarbidge originates as two main forks in the Jarbidge Mountains of northeastern Nevada and then flows through basalt and rhyolite canyons on the high plateau of the Owyhee Desert before joining the Bruneau River.
"Jarbidge" is a name derived from the Shoshone language meaning "devil".[5] Indians believed the nearby hills were haunted.[6]
- ^ a b "Jarbidge River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. June 21, 1979. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
- ^ a b "Jarbidge Lake". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. December 1, 1989. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
- ^ a b "National Hydrography Dataset". United States Geological Survey. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
- ^ Status of the Migratory Bull Trout Population in the Jarbidge River Drainage[permanent dead link], Idaho Bureau of Land Management, Technical Bulletin no. 96-5, April 1996
- ^ Nestor, Sandy (29 November 2004). Indian Placenames in America. McFarland. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-7864-7167-6.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 25.