The two streams parallel Manitoba Provincial Road 513 much of the way.
The Fairford River passes through the Rural Municipality of Grahamdale in its flow eastward.
The gross drainage area above the monitoring station, excluding the diversion from the Assiniboine River near Portage la Prairie, is about 82,300 square kilometres (31,800 sq mi).
[1] Henry Youle Hind writing around 1860, alternatively gave the Dauphin River the names Little Saskatchewan and Rapid River.
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