Iroquois River | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | NW of Rensselaer, Newton Township, Jasper County, Indiana |
• coordinates | 40°57′55″N 87°12′23″W / 40.9652778°N 87.2063889°W |
• elevation | 705 feet (215 m) |
Mouth | |
• location | Kankakee, Illinois |
• coordinates | 41°04′27″N 87°48′59″W / 41.0741993°N 87.8164285°W |
• elevation | 599 feet (183 m) |
Length | 103 miles (166 km) |
Basin size | 2,091 sq mi (5,420 km2) |
Discharge | |
• average | 1,741 cubic feet per second (49.3 m3/s) |
Basin features | |
Progression | Iroquois River → Kankakee → Illinois → Mississippi → Gulf of Mexico |
GNIS ID | 410927 |
The Iroquois River is a 103-mile-long (166 km)[1] tributary of the Kankakee River in the Central Corn Belt Plains of northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois in the United States.[2] It was named for the Iroquois people.[3] Via the Kankakee and Illinois rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.