Maumee River

Maumee River
The Maumee River at Grand Rapids, Ohio
Country	US
Basin features
Main source	Fort Wayne by the confluence of the St. Joseph and St. Marys. 750 ft (230 m) 41°04′58″N 85°07′56″W / 41.0827778°N 85.1322222°W / 41.0827778; -85.1322222 (Maumee River origin)
River mouth	Lake Erie at Toledo 571 ft (174 m) 41°41′58″N 83°27′36″W / 41.6994444°N 83.46°W / 41.6994444; -83.46 (Maumee River mouth)Coordinates: 41°41′58″N 83°27′36″W / 41.6994444°N 83.46°W / 41.6994444; -83.46 (Maumee River mouth)
Basin size	6,354 sq mi (16,460 km2)
Physical characteristics
Length	137 miles (220 km)
Discharge	Average rate: 5,297 cu ft/s (150.0 m3/s)

The Maumee River (pronounced /mɔːˈmiː/) (Shawnee: Hotaawathiipi) is a river running from northeastern Indiana into northwestern Ohio and Lake Erie in the United States. It is formed at the confluence of the St. Joseph and St. Marys rivers, where Fort Wayne, Indiana has developed, and meanders northeastwardly for 137 miles (220 km) through an agricultural region of glacial moraines before flowing into the Maumee Bay of Lake Erie. Toledo, Ohio developed at the Maumee River's mouth. It was designated an Ohio State Scenic River on July 18, 1974. The Maumee watershed is Ohio’s breadbasket, two-thirds farmland, mostly corn and soybeans. The Maumee watershed is the largest of any of the rivers feeding the Great Lakes, and supplies 5 percent of Lake Erie’s water.

Historically the river was also known as the "Miami" in United States treaties with Native Americans. As early as 1671, French colonists called the river was called Miami du Lac, or Miami of the Lake (in contrast to the "Miami of the Ohio" or the Great Miami River). Maumee is an anglicized spelling of the Ottawa or Odawa name for the Miami Indians, Maamii. The Odawa had a village at the mouth of the Maumee River and occupied other territory in northwestern Ohio.