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1624891. The St. Joseph River (known locally as the St. Joe) is a tributary of Lake Michigan with a length of 210 miles (340 km). The river 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 ...
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.
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 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. Indigenous people have long lived in the regions surrounding Corey Lake.
1,750 acres (7.1 km 2) Established. 1967. Governing body. Florida Department of Environmental Protection. T.H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park is a Florida State Park on the St. Joseph Peninsula near Port St. Joe. It is located off U.S. 98 .
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 .
St. Joseph was first platted in 1829, and the first lighthouse at the site, located on the shore, was built in 1832. Construction began on harbor piers in 1836, and by 1848 a beacon light had been established on the pier. The onshore lighthouse was replaced in 1859, and a new pierhead beacon was constructed on the south pier in 1870.
The US 12–St. Joseph River Bridge is the fourth bridge to cross the St. Joseph river in this vicinity. The Great Sauk Trail crossed the river at a shallow spot near the modern crossing. In 1825, the trail was surveyed and converted by the federal government into the Chicago Road, which presently is US 12. The first bridge to carry this road ...