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Heart River
river, North Dakota, United States
Heart River, river, Billings county, southwestern North Dakota, U.S. It rises in the badlands and flows about 200 miles (320 km) generally eastward past Dickinson to join the Missouri River south of Mandan, opposite Bismarck. The Dickinson Dam, impounding Edward Arthur Patterson Lake, and the Heart Butte Dam, impounding Lake Tschida, are units of a Missouri River basin irrigation and flood-control project.
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