St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)

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St. Joseph River
Course of the river and drainage basin of the St. Joseph River

Course of the river and drainage basin of the St. Joseph River

Data
Water code US :  1624891
location Indiana , Michigan
River system Saint Lawrence River
Drain over St. Clair River  → Detroit River  → Niagara River  → Saint Lawrence River  → Atlantic Ocean
Source lake Baw Beese Lake at Hillsdale
41 ° 54 ′ 18 ″  N , 84 ° 36 ′ 57 ″  W.
Source height 334  m
muzzle Lake Michigan coordinates: 42 ° 6 ′ 51 ″  N , 86 ° 29 ′ 18 ″  W 42 ° 6 ′ 51 ″  N , 86 ° 29 ′ 18 ″  W
Mouth height 177  m
Height difference 157 m
Bottom slope 0.46 ‰
length 338 km
Catchment area 12,133 km²
Discharge at the Elkhart
A Eo gauge: 8728 km² 		MQ 1948/2016
Mq 1948/2016
 		93 m³ / s
10.7 l / (s km²)
Left tributaries Coldwater River
Reservoirs flowed through Union Lake, Twin Branch Dam, Mishawaka Dam, South Bend Dam, Niles Dam, Niles Dam, Buchanan Dam, Berrien Springs Dam
Medium-sized cities Elkhart , Mishawaka , South Bend
Small towns Hillsdale , St. Joseph , Three Rivers , Niles
Communities Union City
St. Joseph River in South Bend

St. Joseph River in South Bend

St. Joseph River near Mishawaka

St. Joseph River near Mishawaka

The St. Joseph River is a 338 km long tributary of Lake Michigan in the extreme southwest of the Lower Peninsula in the US states of Michigan and Indiana .

course

The river begins as an outflow of the small lake Baw Beese Lake in the small town of Hillsdale in Hillsdale County in the extreme south of Michigan. It initially flows to the northwest, later to the west. It passes Union City and Three Rivers , then turns southwest and crosses the border into Indiana. There are 67 kilometers of river in Indiana. The St. Joseph River turns west again and passes the towns of Elkhart , Mishawaka and South Bend . At South Bend the St. Joseph River turns north, crosses the border into Michigan, passes Niles and finally flows into Lake Michigan at St. Joseph .

nature and environment

Fish ladders have been built at the dams on the lower reaches of the St. Joseph River since the 1990s . This allows the migratory fish to swim 100 kilometers upstream from the estuary to the Twin Branch Dam in Mishawaka .

Web links

Commons : St. Joseph River  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baw Beese Lake in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
  2. ^ Saint Joseph River in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
  3. ↑ a b St. Joseph River (South Bend) . Indiana Dept. of Natural Resources. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  4. ↑ USGS 04101000 ST. JOSEPH RIVER AT ELKHART, IN
  5. ↑ a b Interstate Anadromous Fish Project . Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources. Retrieved June 30, 2017.