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Somewhat smaller than Lake Michigan, Lake Chippewa extended through most of the Michigan Basin, north to the Straits of Mackinac, where there was a narrow channel which conveyed the lake's outflow over the now submerged Mackinac Falls to Lake Stanley. Its shoreline ranged from 10–30 miles (16–48 km) out from the present day Lake Michigan shore.
The lake and the majority of the township are in the watershed of the West Branch of the Chippewa River, an east-flowing tributary of the Tittabawassee River and part of the Saginaw River watershed leading to Lake Huron. The northern part of the township drains to the Muskegon River, which flows southwest to Lake Michigan.
The Chippewa River is a stream in Michigan, United States, that runs 91.8 miles (147.7 km) [3] through the central Lower Peninsula. The Chippewa is a tributary of the Tittabawassee River and is thus part of the Saginaw River drainage basin .
Sault Ste. Marie was settled by mostly French colonists in 1668, making it the oldest city in Michigan. [5] Sault Ste. Marie is located along the St. Marys River, which flows from Lake Superior to Lake Huron and forms part of the United States–Canada border.
Levels returned and Lake Chippewa again flowed through the canyon at Mackinac until around 7,500 YBP. At that time, the waters in the Michigan basin, Huron basin, and the Superior basin created a single lake encompassing all three of the upper Great Lakes. [2]
It is the landbase for the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. According to the United States Census Bureau in 2020, the reservation has a land area of 0.419 square miles (268.16 acres; 1.09 km 2 ). [ 1 ]
Map showing Indian Reservations in Michigan. The L'Anse Indian Reservation is the land base of the federally recognized Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (Ojibwe: Gakiiwe’onaning) of the historic Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians.
Chippewa County, Michigan from 1904 Michigan County Maps. Chippewa County (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ p ə w ɑː / CHIH-pə-wah) is a county in the eastern Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,785. [3] The county seat is Sault Ste. Marie. [4]