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The Kankakee River Basin drains 2,989 square miles (7,740 km 2) in northwest Indiana, 2,169 square miles (5,620 km 2) in northeast Illinois, and about seven square miles (18 km 2) in southwest Lower Michigan. The Kankakee River heads near South Bend, then flows westward into Illinois, where it joins with the Des Plaines River to form the Illinois.
The Kankakee Outwash Plain is a flat plain interspersed with sand dunes in the Kankakee River valley in northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois of the United States. It is just south of the Valparaiso Moraine and was formed during the Wisconsin Glaciation .
The Collier Lodge site, located in Porter County, Indiana, is one of the few places the Kankakee Marsh could be easily crossed. [2] The site has been occupied for over 11,000 years with evidence of human occupation from 1,000 B.C.E. Historic records of humans occupation in northwestern Indiana are available from the late seventeenth century.
They then sold this land to lawyer Michael Bright, brother of Jesse D. Bright, a U.S. Senator from Indiana. The drainage process began in 1854, when a ditch running from Beaver Lake to the Kankakee River was dug. The Indianapolis Journal correctly predicted that Michael Bright intended to drain the lake and claim ownership of the land. Indeed ...
Lake Kankakee formed 14,000 years before present (YBP) in the valley of the Kankakee River. It developed from the outwash of the Michigan Lobe, Saginaw Lobe, and the Huron-Erie Lobe of the Wisconsin glaciation. These three ice sheets formed a basin across Northwestern Indiana.
With the Kankakee River, the Illinois River watershed stretches from the Illinois border in northwest Indiana and up into Michigan's Berrien County, adjacent to St. Joseph County. This drainage area include most of the state known as the Northwest Indiana , including the city of La Porte but excluding the area north of the Valparaiso Moraine ...
An Indiana environmental agency says there are no obvious signs of harm to wildlife. South Bend ethanol spill appears to have reached Kankakee River, state agency says Skip to main content
Kankakee was an unincorporated community in LaPorte County, Indiana, in the United States. [1] It took its name from the nearby Kankakee River. [2] Never much more than a railroad whistle-stop, nothing remains of the Johnson Township settlement called Kankakee. [3]