Everything about Grand River Michigan totally explained
The
Grand River is the longest
river in the
U.S. state of
Michigan. It runs 260 miles (420 km) through the cities of
Jackson,
Lansing,
Grand Rapids, and
Grand Haven, and the counties of Hillsdale, Jackson, Ingham, Eaton, Clinton, Ionia, Kent, and Ottawa before emptying into
Lake Michigan.
Its
watershed drains an area of 5,572 mile² (14,431 km²). The Grand River carries an average 3,800 ft³/s (108 m³/s). It has several dams along its length but is a
trout and
salmon stream for much of its length.
It is estimated that 22% of the pesticide usage in the Lake Michigan watershed occurs in the Grand River drainage which accounts for only 13% of the total watershed. Much of the basin is flat and it contains many swamps and lakes. Nevertheless, there's an elevation difference of 700 feet (213 m) between the source and mouth of the river.
Tributaries are the
Red Cedar River,
Looking Glass River,
Maple River,
Flat River,
Thornapple River, and the
Rogue River.
A 500 passenger dinner cruise ship modeled after a riverboat operates on the river in Lansing.
Grand Rapids was built on the site of a large
rapids on the river, although these have disappeared after the installation of a low-head
dam, and later a
fish ladder.
History
Before roads, canals, and railroads, the Grand River was an important navigational route through the
Lower Peninsula of Michigan, used for centuries by various
Native American tribes and later by explorers and white settlers. The river was called
O-wash-ta-nong, meaning "Far-away-water" because of its length.
It also formed part of a major demarcation of land ceded by Native Americans enabling U.S. settlers to legally obtain title to land in the area. In the 1821
Treaty of Chicago, the
Ottawa,
Ojibwe, and
Potawatomi ceded to the United States all lands in
Michigan Territory south of the Grand River, with the exception of several small reservations.
Grand River Avenue (or Grand River Road) was built early in the settlement of Michigan and runs from the head of navigation on the Grand to downtown Detroit. It formed an important part of an early route between
Chicago and
Detroit, along with the Grand itself, from
Grand Rapids to
Grand Haven, and
Lake Michigan.
Image:3 Convergence.JPG|Convergence of the Grand and Red Cedar Rivers in downtown Lansing
Image:North_Lansing_dam.jpg|The Grand River's North Lansing dam, near downtown Lansing
Image:Grand River, Grand Rapids.jpg|The Grand River through downtown Grand Rapids
Image:Grand River Watershed.gif|The Grand River Watershed
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