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Iroquois River
Iroquois River
	The Iroquois River in Newton County, Indiana.
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	NW of Rensselaer, Newton Township, Jasper County, Indiana
• coordinates	40°57′55″N 87°12′23″W / 40.9652778°N 87.2063889°W
• elevation	705 feet (215 m)
Mouth
• location	Kankakee, Illinois
• coordinates	41°04′27″N 87°48′59″W / 41.0741993°N 87.8164285°W
• elevation	599 feet (183 m)
Length	103 miles (166 km)
Basin size	2,091 sq mi (5,420 km2)
Discharge
• average	1,741 cubic feet per second (49.3 m3/s)
Basin features
GNIS ID	410927

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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, Brook, and Kentland 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

Sources

^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-04-05 at WebCite, accessed May 13, 2011
^ ^a ^b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Iroquois River
^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 166.

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.

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[NHD-1] U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-04-05 at WebCite, accessed May 13, 2011

[GNIS705-2] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Iroquois River

[3] Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 166.

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