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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.
This list of Michigan rivers includes all streams designated rivers although some may be smaller than those streams designated creeks, runs, brooks, swales, cuts, bayous, outlets, inlets, drains and ditches. These terms are all in use in Michigan.
It is located in the central portion of the lower peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of the Saginaw Bay in Lake Huron and five miles (8 km) south of the city of Saginaw in the county's Spaulding and James townships. It was established in 1953 to provide habitat for migratory waterfowl.
The Black River Canal in northern Port Huron extends east into Lake Huron near Krafft Road. The river rises in northern Sanilac County, near the boundary with Huron County, and its 711-square-mile (1,840 km 2) [3] drainage basin covers most of the central and southern portions of Sanilac County, most of northern St. Clair County, and portions ...
The Fence River is a tributary of the Michigamme River, which is itself a tributary to the Menominee River, flowing to Lake Michigan. The Mitchigan River has its source in the southeast corner of Baraga County at 46°24′58″N 88°08′05″W / 46.41611°N 88.13472°W / 46.41611; -88.13472
The river is formed by a confluence of agricultural drainage ditches in Olive Township [5] and flows generally west-southwestward into Port Sheldon Township. After flowing through Pigeon Lake, [ 7 ] which is the only lake in the river's watershed, [ 5 ] it flows into Lake Michigan in Port Sheldon Township, approximately 9.5 miles (15.3 km ...
The Rogue River is a river in the U.S. state of Michigan, running through Kent and Newaygo counties and through the Rogue River State Game Area. It is 48 miles (77 km) long [2] and has a drainage basin of 234 square miles (610 km 2). [3] Its headwaters are a series of ditches that drain the old Rice Lake bed near Grant for agricultural purposes ...
Due to environmental contamination, a portion of the river was designated a Great Lakes Area of Concern (AOC) under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1987. The designated site includes the lowermost 1.7-mile (2.7 km) portion of the Manistique River downstream of a dam in the city of Manistique, as well as the Manistique harbor at the mouth of the river on Lake Michigan.