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The Rock River Trail in Dodge County, Wisconsin. The river is used for various water and paddling sports. The Rock River Water Trail is on the river from its headwaters above the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in south central Wisconsin to the confluence with the Mississippi River at the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa 330 miles downriver ...
The Yahara River (/ j ə ˈ h ær ə /) is a tributary of the Rock River in southern Wisconsin. It is about 62 miles (100 km) long [ 3 ] (including the distance across intervening lakes), and drains an area of 536 square miles (1,390 km 2 ). [ 4 ]
The Pecatonica River is a tributary of the Rock River, 194 miles (312 km) long, [2] in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois in the United States.. The word Pecatonica is an anglicization of two Algonquian language words: Bekaa (or Pekaa in some dialects), which means "slow", and niba, which means "water", forming the conjunction Bekaaniba or "Slow Water".
Willow River (Tomahawk River tributary) Wind River; Wisconsin River; Wolf River (Eau Claire River tributary) Wolf River (Fox River tributary), tributary of Winnebago Pool; Wood River; Yahara River; Yellow River (Chippewa River tributary) Yellow River (Red Cedar River tributary) Yellow River (St. Croix River tributary) Yellow River (Wisconsin ...
The Bark River is a tributary of the Rock River, about 67.5 miles (108.6 km) long, [1] in southeastern Wisconsin in the United States. Via the Rock River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known
Johnson Creek is a minor tributary of the Rock River, about 20.8 miles (33.5 km) long, [1] in southeastern Wisconsin in the United States. Via the Rock River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. Its watershed lies entirely within Jefferson County. [2]
Lake Koshkonong is a reservoir in southern Wisconsin, which was transformed from its original marshland by the construction of the Indianford Dam in 1932. [1] The lake lies along the Rock River, with the river acting as both the primary inflow and the primary outflow for the lake.
The Rock River slowly eroded the moraine, and the lake drained. As the levels of silt , clay and peat accumulated in the former lake's basin, the Horicon Marsh was formed. The Horicon Marsh State Wildlife Area is one of nine units of the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve system, being considered to contain unique, representative evidence of ...