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1624891. 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 ...
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]
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.
The Fawn River is a 55.4-mile-long (89.2 km) [1] river in southwest Michigan and northeast Indiana in the United States. It flows into the St. Joseph River in the city of Constantine, Michigan. The headwaters rise in a series of lakes and marshes in northern Steuben County, Indiana near Pokagon State Park, where it is known as "Crooked Creek ...
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Portage River is a 38.6-mile-long (62.1 km) [3] river that flows southward through Kalamazoo County and St. Joseph County, Michigan.Its headwaters are 8 miles (13 km) east of the city of Kalamazoo at Portage Lake, and the river flows southwest to its mouth within the city limits of Three Rivers, where it drains into the St. Joseph River.
The Kankakee River is a tributary of the ... At one time, the river drained one of the largest wetlands in North ... The St. Joseph River drains into Lake Michigan ...