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Saint Joseph River (Mich. and Ind.)


  • Here are entered works on the river originating in south central Michigan, flowing into Indiana, and back into Michigan, and emptying into Lake Michigan.Works on the river originating in southeastern Michigan, flowing through northeastern Ohio into Indiana, and emptying into the Maumee River are entered under [Saint Joseph River (Mich.-Ind.).]
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    • n-us-mi
    • n-us-in
  • Variants

    • Saint Joe River (Mich. and Ind.)
    • Saint Joseph River of Lake Michigan (Mich. and Ind.)
    • St. Joseph River (Mich. and Ind.)
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  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Water resource availability in the St. Joseph River basin, Indiana, 1987.
    • found: Lippincott.
    • found: Rand McNally.
    • found: Web. geog.
    • found: BGN.
    • found: Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary online, Feb. 27, 2007:Saint Joseph (river, flows from S. MIchigan into NW Indiana and back into Michigan before flowing into Lake Michigan)
    • found: Turner, T.G. Gazetteer of the St. Joseph Valley, Michigan and Indiana, 1867:p. 18 (in Hillside County, Mich., rise the St. Joseph of Lake Michigan and the St. Joseph of the Maumee)
    • found: Wikipedia, July 19, 2007(St. Joseph River (locally known as the St. Joe) is a river, approximately 210 mi (338 km) long, in southern Michigan and northern Indiana in the United States; it drains a primarily rural farming area in the watershed of Lake Michigan; it was enormously important in the days of Native Americans and the colonial settlement as a canoe route between Lake Michigan and the watershed of the Mississippi River; it is sometimes known as the St. Joseph River of Lake Michigan to distinguish it from the nearby St. Joseph River in the Maumee River watershed.)
    • found: GeoNames [algorithmically matched]stream; 42°06ʹ51ʺN 086°29ʹ18ʺW
  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on the river originating in south central Michigan, flowing into Indiana, and back into Michigan, and emptying into Lake Michigan.Works on the river originating in southeastern Michigan, flowing through northeastern Ohio into Indiana, and emptying into the Maumee River are entered under [Saint Joseph River (Mich.-Ind.).]
  • Example Notes

    • Note under [Saint Joseph River (Mich.-Ind.)]
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  • Change Notes

    • 1989-09-26: new
    • 2011-06-04: revised
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