Iroquois River
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The Iroquois River in Newton County, Indiana.
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| Origin | NW of Rensselaer, Newton Township, Jasper County, Indiana Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Mouth | Kankakee, Illinois Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Length | 103 miles (166 km) |
| Source elevation | 705 feet (215 m) |
| Mouth elevation | 599 feet (183 m) |
| Avg. discharge | 1741 cu ft per sec |
| Basin area | 2,091 sq mi (5,420 km2) |
| GNIS ID | 410927 |
The Iroquois River is a 103-mile-long (166 km)[1] tributary of the Kankakee River in northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois in the United States.[2] It was named for the Iroquois people.[3] Via the Kankakee and Illinois rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Course
The Iroquois River rises in Jasper County, Indiana, and flows generally west-southwestwardly through Newton County, Indiana, and Iroquois County, Illinois, where it turns northward and flows into Kankakee County, Illinois. It enters the Kankakee River from the south in Kankakee County, opposite the village of Aroma Park, about 4 miles (6 km) southwest of the city of Kankakee.
Along its course the Iroquois passes the town of Rensselaer and Brook in Indiana and the towns of Iroquois, Watseka and Sugar Island in Illinois.
Variant names
According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Iroquois River, or portions thereof, has also been known as:[2]
- Borntrager Ditch
- Burns Ditch
- Irokois River
- Iroquois Ditch
- Pickamick River
- Pickamink Lateral
- Pickamink River
- Pinkamink River
- Swain Ditch
- Thompson Ditch
Towns and cities
See also
Sources
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 13, 2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Iroquois River
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
- DeLorme (2003). Illinois Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-321-4.
- DeLorme (1998). Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-211-0.
