Yellow River (Indiana)
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 The Yellow River in Knox in 2006
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Indiana |
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| - location | St. Joseph County |
| - elevation | 804 ft (245 m) |
| - coordinates | 41°29′54″N 86°09′08″W / 41.49833°N 86.15222°W |
| Mouth | Kankakee River |
| - location | Starke County |
| - elevation | 656 ft (200 m) |
| - coordinates | 41°16′16″N 86°49′35″W / 41.27111°N 86.82639°WCoordinates: 41°16′16″N 86°49′35″W / 41.27111°N 86.82639°W |
| Length | 62 mi (100 km) approx. |
| Basin | 427 sq mi (1,106 km2) |
| Discharge | for Knox |
| - average | 374.4 cu ft/s (10.6 m3/s) (2005) |
  Location of the mouth of the Yellow River in Starke County, Indiana
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The Yellow River is a 62.3-mile-long (100.3 km)tributary of the Kankakee River in northern Indiana in the United States. Via the Kankakee and Illinois rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 427 square miles (1,110 km2). The river's name possibly derives from a translation of the Shawnee name for the river, We-thau-ka-mik, meaning "yellow waters", a description perhaps owing to the presence of sand in the riverbed.
Significant portions of the Yellow River's course have been straightened and channelized; the river's present-day course is considered to begin at a confluence of agricultural ditches in southeastern St. Joseph County, approximately 4 miles (6 km) north of the town of Bremen. The river initially flows southwardly into Marshall County, past Bremen; then generally southwestwardly, returning to its naturally winding riverbed and flowing through the city of Plymouth; and westwardly in a substantially straightened course through Starke County, past the city of Knox. It flows into the Kankakee River in southwestern Starke County, approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of Knox near the town of English Lake.
The Yellow River is bounded by the St. Joseph River of Lake Michigan on the north, flowing through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend. To the east is the Elkhart River, a branch of the St. Joseph, all flowing to Lake Michigan, through the lower lakes to the St. Lawrence River and reaching the North Atlantic. On the south and the southeast, it is bounded by the drainage of the Tippecanoe River. The Tippecanoe River flows southward into the Wabash River, emptying into the Ohio, then into the Mississippi River, expelling its waters into the Gulf of Mexico. To the southwest is the Iroquois River a tributary of the Kankakee River, as is the Yellow River. The Yellow River is the second-largest tributary of the Kankakee. The Iroquois River is larger and joins the Kankakee across the border in Illinois. The Kankakee River joins the Des Plaines River south of Joliet, Illinois, forming the Illinois River. Together they flow the length of the state of Illinois before joining the Mississippi River, north of St. Louis.
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