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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.
The Detroit River is an international river in North America.The river, which forms part of the border between the U.S. state of Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario, flows west and south for 24 nautical miles (44 km; 28 mi) from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie as a strait in the Great Lakes system.
The Dead River (French: Rivière des Morts) is a 43.2-mile-long (69.5 km) [2] river in Marquette County, Michigan. [3] Its watershed is approximately 400 square miles (1,000 km 2 ) in size. [ 3 ] The river flows southeasterly from western Marquette County to its mouth on Lake Superior .
The Ecorse River is an 18.8-mile-long (30.3 km) [2] river in southern Michigan. Because of its small size, it is often identified as Ecorse Creek. It flows through the Downriver section of Metro Detroit, and is a tributary of the Detroit River. The early French settlers named it the Rivière aux Écorces ("bark river"). [3]
Humbug Marsh, a 1.88 square kilometres (0.73 sq mi) wetland in southeastern Wayne County, Michigan, is a constituent element of the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge. It is listed as a Ramsar wetland of international importance .
Peche Island (French pronunciation anglicized to / ˈ p iː tʃ /, therefore occasionally misspelled "Peach"), is an uninhabited, currently 86-acre (35 ha) (reduced by erosion from a 1965 measurement of 109 acres / 43.7 ha) Canadian island in the Detroit River, at its opening into Lake Saint Clair.
It flows into the Detroit River at Zug Island, which is the boundary between the cities of River Rouge and Detroit. The river's roughly 467-square-mile (1,210 km 2) watershed includes all or parts of 48 municipalities, with a total population of more than 1.35 million, and it drains a large portion of central and northwest Wayne County, as well ...
Pages in category "Michigan populated places on the Detroit River" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .