Iroquois River (Indiana-Illinois)

Iroquois River
Iroquois River
	The Iroquois River in Newton County, Indiana.
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

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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.

^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 13, 2011
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Iroquois River
^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 166.