Five Mile River (Quinebaug River)
The Fivemile River is a river in northeast Connecticut . It rises in close proximity to the Massachusetts border . The name of the Nipmuck was Assawaga , which means something like “space in between” or “space halfway”. The English name was given on the assumption that the first area that was released for settlement, "five miles from" Woodstock (Connecticut) was away.
geography
The Five Mile River rises in the north of Little Pond , in the same basin as Lake Chaubunagungamaug in Massachusetts and, after a short course to the east, forms the Long Pond , from where it turns south and hard on the border with Rhode Island in an often curved shape Run runs in a south-southwest direction again. It is dammed to Quaddick Reservoir , where it is protected by Quaddick State Park and Quaddick State Forest . To the south of it it has swarms of small tributaries and is dammed several times in Ballouville ( Killingly ). From there it continues in a winding course in a westerly direction, after a few kilometers it passes under the American Ex-Prisoner of War Memorial Highway (US 395; 53) and passes Dayville Pond and Dayville Historic District . To the south of it the Whetstone Brook joins again as an important feeder with a number of tributaries and ponds and to the north of Danielson it passes Westfield Cemetery and Holy Cross Cemetery on the right , and Hutchins Street Cemetery on the left and forms Fivemile Pond before it passes under US Route 6 at the junction with Connecticut Route 12 and flows into the Quinebaug River . In Danielson, the Between the Rivers Neck lies between the Five Mile River and the Quinebaug River at a point where the two rivers come very close together and both run in a southerly direction. The Five Mile River is part of the Thames River system . The river is 23.5 mi (37.8 km) long.
Reservoirs
The river is dammed in numerous places. Many of these reservoirs used to be used to drive mills. The largest reservoir is the Quaddick Reservoir . Historic mill settlements can still be found in Killingly in the villages of Pineville , Ballouville , Attawaugan and Dayville .
- The most important lakes
Little Pond (42 ° 00'52.0 "N 71 ° 50'27.2" W), Long Pond , Mavis Pond I , Kingsbury Pond , Stump Pond , Quaddick Reservoir , Lower Pond , Ballouville Pond , Dayville Pond , Fivemile Pond .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Fivemile River in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- ↑ "supposed to be about five miles from"
- ^ US Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map