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The state has over 300 named rivers. Several names are shared by different rivers; for example, there are eight Pine Rivers and seven Black Rivers. In four cases there are two rivers of the same name in one county. In these cases extra information such as alternate name or body of water they flow into has been added.
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An enlargeable map of the state of Michigan. Names Common name: Michigan. Pronunciation: / ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ Official name: State of Michigan; Abbreviations and name codes; Postal symbol: MI; ISO 3166-2 code: US-MI; Internet second-level domain: .mi.us. Nicknames The Great Lakes State (previously used on license plates)
English: A map of the Black River and its watershed (USGS HUC-10 codes 0409000101 and 0409000102) in Sanilac and St. Clair counties in Michigan. Date 26 November 2016
Black River is an 81.0-mile-long (130.4 km) [2] river in the U.S. state of Michigan, flowing into the St. Clair River in the city of Port Huron.The Black River Canal in northern Port Huron extends east into Lake Huron near Krafft Road.
In 1800, the Indiana Territory was created, and most of the current state Michigan lay within it, with only the easternmost parts of the state remaining in the Northwest Territory. [4] In 1802, when Ohio was admitted to the Union , the whole of Michigan was attached to the Territory of Indiana, and so remained until 1805, when the Territory of ...
Sanilac Petroglyphs Historic State Park is a historic preservation area in the U.S. state of Michigan. The state park, also known as ezhibiigadek asin (Ojibwe for "written on stone"), [3] consists of 240 acres (97 ha) in Greenleaf Township, Sanilac County, in Michigan's Thumb. It contains the largest collection of Native American petroglyphs in
The first permanent white settlement in the area was a fur-trading post on the west side of the Saginaw River established in 1816 by Louis Campau. [4] The U.S. federal government extinguished Native American interests for most of the land in the area with the Treaty of Saginaw in 1819, clearing the way for white settlers .