The Bad River is a
[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data]
The National Map
, accessed November 7, 2011 river in
Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
. It rises in
Newark Township near the city of
Ithaca
Ithaca most commonly refers to:
*Homer's Ithaca, an island featured in Homer's ''Odyssey''
*Ithaca (island), an island in Greece, possibly Homer's Ithaca
*Ithaca, New York, a city, and home of Cornell University and Ithaca College
Ithaca, Ithaka ...
in
Gratiot County and flows in a north-easterly direction into
Saginaw County
Saginaw County () is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 190,124. The county seat is Saginaw. The county was created by September 10, 1822, and was fully organized on February 9, 1835. The ...
, and through the village of St. Charles, Michigan, St. Charles, before emptying into the Shiawassee River within the bounds of the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge.
The river and its tributaries have a total combined length of ; most of it River engineering#Channelization, channelized.
[ Land use within the surrounding watershed is 86.5 percent agricultural; as a result, the river system has been adversely impacted by sedimentation.
The name "Bad River" comes from the Chippewa Indians who called the river "maw-tchi-sebe" or quite literally, "bad river," because of how difficult it was for them to navigate it.]
See also
*List of rivers of Michigan
References
Rivers of Michigan
Rivers of Gratiot County, Michigan
Rivers of Saginaw County, Michigan
Tributaries of Lake Huron
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