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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.
It is formed at the confluence of the St. Joseph and St. Marys rivers, where Fort Wayne, Indiana has developed, and meanders northeastwardly for 137 miles (220 km) [4] through an agricultural region of glacial moraines before flowing into the Maumee Bay of Lake Erie. The city of Toledo is located at the mouth of the Maumee. The Maumee was ...
In 1997, Owens pushed for the St. Joseph River to be named one of 10 in the United States as an American Heritage River, by executive order from then-President Bill Clinton. It was a long shot.
Lake Michigan (/ ˈmɪʃɪɡən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume [5] (1,180 cu mi (4,900 km 3)) and the third-largest by surface area (22,405 sq mi (58,030 km 2)), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron.
Kankakee River (main stem) Rum Village Woods, South Bend, St. Joseph County (bird watching and small mammals) [17] Potato Creek State Park, North Liberty, St. Joseph County; Fish Lake Wildlife Conservation Area, Fish Lake, LaPorte County [17] Kingsbury Fish and Wildlife Area, Kingsbury, LaPorte County
St. Joseph River may refer to the following streams in the U.S. state of Michigan: St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan), rises in Hillsdale County and flows primarily to the west into Lake Michigan. St. Joseph River (Maumee River), rises in Hillsdale County and flows primarily southwest, joins with the St. Mary's River in Ft. Wayne, Indiana to form ...
The St. Joseph Channel is a strait in Algoma District, Northwestern Ontario, Canada and Chippewa County, Michigan, United States. [1] [2] It is in the Great Lakes Basin and connects the St. Marys River flowing through the Middle Neebish Channel between Neebish Island and Sugar Island at the northwest and Lake George / East Neebish Channel ...