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The Grand Calumet is divided into an East and West branch, on the respective sides of the Indiana Harbor Canal.The East Branch, which drains entirely into Lake Michigan, [6] rises in Marquette Park in Gary's Miller Beach neighborhood, passing through a series of three lagoons - two of which are partially located within the Miller Woods unit of Indiana Dunes National Park - before flowing ...
Historically, the Little Calumet River and the Grand Calumet River were one, the former flowing west from Indiana into Illinois, then turning back east to its mouth at Lake Michigan at Marquette Park in Gary. [1] Now the system is part of the Chicago Area Waterway System and through the use of locks flows away from Lake Michigan to the Cal-Sag ...
Galena River; Grand Calumet River; Great Miami River; Greenville Creek; Iroquois River; Jackson Creek (Monroe County) Kankakee River; Little Blue River (Perry and Crawford counties) Little Blue River (Shelby, Rush and Henry counties) Little Calumet River; Little Elkhart River; Little Flatrock River; Little Kankakee River; Little Pigeon Creek
The name Calumet is said to come from French interpretations of either the Potawatomi name for the rivers and lake in question (“low body of deep, still water”) [8] or is a corruption of the Old French term Chalemel, which means "reed". The word appears on early maps as Cal-La-Mick, Kil-La-Mick, Calumic, etc. [1]
Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes. ISBN 0-8195-6129-0. Greenberg, Joel R. (2002). A natural history of the Chicago Region. ISBN 0-226-30648-8. Whitaker, John O. (1999). "Mammals of the Grand Calumet River region". Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. 108/109: 122– 144. Archived from the original on 2012 ...
In the northwest part of the state, it includes the Grand Calumet River area in Lake and Porter counties, and includes the cities of Gary and Hammond. This watershed is defined by the Valparaiso Moraine. The second, and larger Lake Michigan watershed is the St. Joseph River watershed, which drains the north central and northeastern part of the ...
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In 1903, work began on a canal that would eventually linking the Indiana Harbor inland to both the Grand Calumet River and Lake George. Over the next several years, many industries were established there. [4] In 1914, the federal government assumed responsibility for Indiana Harbor and the canal.