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The Fox River is a 202-mile-long (325 km) [1] tributary of the Illinois River, flowing from southeastern Wisconsin to Ottawa, Illinois in the United States. The Wisconsin section was known as the Pishtaka River in the 19th century. [ 4 ]
The Fox River is a tributary of the Little Wabash River in southern Illinois. [1] It rises in Jasper County to the southeast of Newton and flows south past Olney, then joins the Little Wabash at the northeast corner of Edwards County, near Mt. Erie. The river is 46.4 miles (74.7 km) in length. [2]
Indian Creek is part of the Lower Fox River watershed. [4] [5] Indian Creek travels near the communities of Paw Paw (in Lee County), Shabbona and Rollo (in DeKalb County), and Earlville, Harding, Serena, and Baker (in LaSalle County). The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) shows 22 streams bearing the name Indian Creek in Illinois.
Nippersink Creek is a freshwater tributary that flows for 23 miles in the Illinois River / Fox River (Illinois River tributary) watershed, mostly in McHenry County, Illinois, within the Glacial Park Conservation Area, but also enters the Fox River / Chain O'Lakes area in Lake County, Illinois. [2]
The Chain O'Lakes, or simply "The Chain", is a waterway system in northeast Illinois composed of 15 lakes connected by the Fox River and man-made channels. Encompassing more than 7,100 acres (29 km 2 ) of water, 488 miles (785 km) of shoreline and 45 miles (72 km) of river, the Chain is the busiest inland recreational waterway per acre in the ...
The Dam maintains the Fox Chain O'Lakes Pool levels while the Lock provides recreational passage between the Fox Chain O'Lakes in northern Illinois, and the Fox River for recreational watercraft from May through October and is closed for the winter season each year from November 1 through April 30. An average of 17,000 boats pass through the ...
The Fox Valley—also commonly known as the Fox River Valley—is a region centered on the Fox River of Northern Illinois, along the western edges of the Chicago metropolitan area. [1] The region extends from the village of Antioch , in far northern Illinois, to the city of Ottawa in the south. [ 1 ]
The Montgomery Dam is a gravity dam on the Fox River in Montgomery, Illinois.The dam was built for flood control and navigation in 1969 as a part of the Stratton project [1] dam system [2] which was designed to keep the river navagable from the Wisconsin border to the confluence with the Illinois River.