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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 ...
St. Joseph River near Newville in DeKalb County, Indiana. Floodwall along St. Joseph River in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 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.
Laughing Whitefish River. Leland River, also called the Carp River. Lincoln River. Little Betsie River (Lower Peninsula of Michigan) Little Betsy River (Upper Peninsula of Michigan) Little Black River (Cheboygan County) Little Black River (Gogebic County) Little Brevoort River.
P. Portage River (Kalamazoo–St. Joseph counties) Prairie River (Michigan)
Three Rivers is a city in St. Joseph County, Michigan. The population was 7,973 at the time of the 2020 census. [ 5 ] Three Rivers derives its name from its location at the confluence of the St. Joseph River and two tributaries, the Rocky and Portage rivers. [ 6 ] The St. Joseph River flows into Lake Michigan.
The county was set off and organized by the Michigan Territory legislature in 1829; it was named for the river. [1] The area is home to the oldest and largest Amish community in Michigan. [4] St. Joseph County comprises the Sturgis, MI Micropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek-Portage, MI Combined Statistical Area.
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.
November 9, 2005. The St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights are lighthouses in St. Joseph, Michigan, US, at the entrance to the St. Joseph River on Lake Michigan. The station was built in 1832 with the current lights built in 1906 and 1907; [ 1 ][ 4 ] they were decommissioned in 2005. [ 5 ]