Thesaurus results for HEADWATERS

headwaters

noun

plural of headwater

as in tributary

the beginning part of a stream the first exploration of the Missouri River from its mouth to its headwaters was made by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the early 1800s

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Recent Examples of headwaters Now, Hall and Hall is marketing the 1,500-acre Spring Creek Ranch, a marquee holding at the headwaters of the renowned Fall River. —

David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2026 North Park — about 100 miles (161 kilometers) from the South Park valley that inspired the cartoon TV show — is a headwaters of the eastward-flowing Platte River system. —

ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026 The stream flows north 17 miles from its headwaters just south of Ray Lake Forest Preserve, near Wauconda, through Long Lake and then into Fox Lake. —

Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026 The headwaters of the Colorado River are among the nation's driest places. —

Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026 The report’s map showed the browns and yellows of persisting and developing drought across the entire Upper Colorado River Basin except in the Green River headwaters of Wyoming. —

Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 20 Mar. 2026 The area includes headwaters for the South Platte River, a source of drinking and agricultural irrigation water. —

Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2026 The northernmost headwaters of the Florida Everglades, Shingle Creek flows from the city into nearby Lake Tohopekaliga, eventually reaching the Everglades. —

Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2026 In recent years, high-elevation residents have been detected near Donner Lake and the headwaters of the American River's north fork. —

Brandon Downs, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026

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On the Columbia River and its tributaries, the party had to dig out five new canoes and then paddle them through treacherous rapids.

— Craig Fehrman, Space.com, 6 Apr. 2026
That matters because snowpack makes up the bulk of the state’s water supply; Colorado is heavily dependent on surface water in rivers and tributaries fed by melting snow in the soaring Rocky Mountains, in addition to backup supplies in reservoirs.

— Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 6 Apr. 2026