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The St. Joseph River (known locally as the St. Joe) is a 210-mile-long (340 km) river that flows in a generally westerly direction through southern Michigan and northern Indiana, United States, before emptying into Lake Michigan. The St. Joseph River drainage basin covers 4,685 square miles (12,130 km 2), and is the third largest watershed ...
The St. Joseph River (Miami-Illinois: Kociihsasiipi) [1] is an 86.1-mile-long (138.6 km) [2] tributary of the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio and northeastern Indiana in the United States, with headwater tributaries rising in southern Michigan. It drains a primarily rural farming region in the watershed of Lake Erie.
The Maumee was designated an Ohio State Scenic River on July 18, 1974. The Maumee watershed is Ohio's breadbasket; it is two-thirds farmland, mostly corn and soybeans. It is the largest watershed of any of the rivers feeding the Great Lakes, [5] and supplies five percent of Lake Erie's water. [6]
The Saint Joe River (sometimes abbreviated St. Joe River) is a 140-mile (225 km) long [3] tributary of Coeur d'Alene Lake in northern Idaho.Beginning at an elevation of 6,487 feet (1,977 m) [2] in the Northern Bitterroot Range of eastern Shoshone County, it flows generally west through the Saint Joe River Valley and the communities of Avery and Calder.
The Kankakee rises in northwestern Indiana, approximately five miles (8.0 km) southwest of South Bend, Indiana. It flows in a straight channelized course, generally southwestward through rural northwestern Indiana, collecting the Yellow River from the south in Starke County, and passing the communities of South Center and English Lake.
Black River (Allegan/Van Buren counties) St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan) Paw Paw River; Dowagiac River; Pigeon River (St. Joseph County) Fawn River. Little Fawn River; Prairie River; Rocky River; Portage River (Kalamazoo/St. Joseph counties) Nottawa Creek (also known as Nottawa River) Coldwater River (Branch County) Sauk River; Galien River ...
The St. Joseph River Valley Region was covered under glacial ice until the Last Glacial Period, during which the ice retreated and the water left behind formed into the early Great Lakes as well as countless rivers, streams, and smaller kettle lakes likely including Corey. [3] Indigenous people have long lived in the regions surrounding Corey Lake.
In the northwest part of the state, it includes the Grand Calumet River area in Lake and Porter counties, and includes the cities of Gary and Hammond. This watershed is defined by the Valparaiso Moraine. The second, and larger Lake Michigan watershed is the St. Joseph River watershed, which drains the north central and northeastern part of the ...