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Saginaw Bay is a bay within Lake Huron located on the eastern side of the U.S. state of Michigan. It forms the space between Michigan's Thumb region and the rest of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Saginaw Bay is 1,143 square miles (2,960 km 2) in area. [2] It is located in parts of five Michigan counties: Arenac, Bay, Huron, Iosco, and Tuscola.
Saginaw River. The Saginaw River is a 22.4-mile-long (36.0 km) [3] river in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is formed by the confluence of the Tittabawassee and Shiawassee rivers southwest of Saginaw. It flows northward into the Saginaw Bay of Lake Huron, passing through the cities of Saginaw and Bay City, both of which developed around it in ...
The Shiawassee watershed is located south and west of Saginaw Bay in Central Michigan. Its basin is shaped like an hourglass, approximately 65 miles (105 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide at each end, and narrows to 5 miles (8.0 km) wide near Corunna. [3] The river rises in Oakland County in Springfield Township at Shiawassee Lake. [5]
The Cass River is a 61.5-mile-long (99.0 km) [2] river in the Thumb region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It drains large portions of Sanilac and Tuscola counties and smaller portions of Genesee, Huron, Lapeer, and Saginaw counties. It flows into the Shiawassee River in the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge at 43°22′42″N 83°59′04″W ...
Charity Island, also known as Big Charity Island, is the largest island in Saginaw Bay, in the Michigan waters of Lake Huron. The island is 222 acres (0.90 km 2) in area and has about 3 miles (4.8 km) of shoreline. It is part of Whitney Township, in Arenac County. The island also contains an 11-acre (0.04 km 2) pond, literally a 'lake within a ...
The first Saginaw River lighthouse was constructed from 1839 to 1841, in a period when large quantities of lumber were being harvested and shipped from the heart of Michigan via river and the Great Lakes to the East Coast of the United States via the Erie Canal and Hudson River. This connection to major eastern markets was critical to the ...
Intensity. 15,000 candela [ 3] Range. 9.6 nautical miles; 18 kilometres (11 mi) Characteristic. red flash every 6 seconds [ 4] Gravelly Shoals Light is an automated lighthouse that is an active aid to navigation on the shallow shoals extending southeast from Point Lookout [ 7] on the western side of Saginaw Bay.
The Tittabawassee River (/ ˈtɪtəbəˈwɑːsi / TIH-tə-bə-WAH-see) flows in a generally southeasterly direction through the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The river begins at Secord Lake in Clement Township, at the confluence of the East Branch and the Middle Branch. [3] From there it flows through Gladwin, Midland and ...