Menominee River
| Menominee River | |
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 Menominee River | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Brule and Michigamme rivers |
| • coordinates | 45°57′12″N 88°11′46″W / 45.95328°N 88.19624°W[1] |
| Mouth | |
• location | Green Bay, Lake Michigan |
• coordinates | 45°05′41″N 87°35′28″W / 45.0947°N 87.59121°W |
| Length | 116 mi (187 km) |
| Basin size | 4,070 sq mi (10,500 km2)[2] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | mouth |
| • average | 3,516 cu ft/s (99.6 m3/s) (estimate)[3] |
The Menominee River is a river in northwestern Michigan and northeastern Wisconsin in the United States. It is approximately 116 miles (187 km) long,[4] draining a rural forested area of northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan into Lake Michigan. Its entire course, with that of its tributary, the Brule River, forms part of the boundary between the two states.[5][6]
Description
It is formed approximately 10 miles (16 km) northwest of
Pike rivers. It enters Green Bay on Lake Michigan from the north between Marinette, Wisconsin and Menominee, Michigan
.
Along its course the Menominee River has been converted into a series of large
docks. The lakes are pristine, with wild shores of forest lands.[7]
The name of the river comes from an
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin have a reservation on the Wolf River (Fox River tributary). The Menominee believe that they were created at the mouth of the Menominee River when the Ancestral Bear emerged from the river mouth and was transformed into the first Menominee by the Creator.[8]
The
Jesuit Relations, the French missionary
priests referred to the river as Rivière de la Folle Avoine or "Wild Oats River", again a reference to the wild rice.
The region through which the river flows was formerly a center of
open-pit near Stephenson, Michigan to be constructed within 150 feet (46 m) of the river.[9]
See also
References
- ^ "Menominee River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Great Lakes Commission (August 2000). "Assessment of the Lake Michigan Monitoring Inventory : Menominee River" (PDF). www.glc.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 26, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
- ^ United States Environmental Protection Agency. "Watershed Report: Menominee River". WATERS GeoViewer. Archived from the original on 2022-01-20. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed December 19, 2011
- ^ Menominee River/Piers Gorge - Norway Nature & Parks - Pure Michigan Travel
- ^ WDNR – Menominee River Natural Resources Area Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Menominee River Natural Resource Area, Menominee River
- ^ "Culture". No Back 40 Mine. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
- ^ Ellison, Garret (August 4, 2022). "In the UP, a new chapter begins in 20-year clash over gold mine". Mlive. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Menominee River.
- Friends of the Menominee River
- Menominee Indians, Native Americans website
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