Misplaced Pages

Bad River
The Bad River in St. Charles
Location
Country	United States
State	Michigan
Counties	Gratiot, Saginaw
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Newark Township
• coordinates	43°14′29″N 84°38′23″W / 43.24142°N 84.63972°W / 43.24142; -84.63972
Mouth	Shiawassee River
• location	Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge
• coordinates	43°19′25″N 84°05′22″W / 43.32363°N 84.08942°W / 43.32363; -84.08942
Length	44.3 mi (71.3 km)
Discharge
• location	mouth
• average	263.77 cu ft/s (7.469 m/s) (estimate)

The Bad River is a 44.3-mile-long (71.3 km) river in Michigan. It rises in Newark Township near the city of Ithaca in Gratiot County and flows in a north-easterly direction into Saginaw County, and through the village of 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 175 miles (282 km); most of it 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

1. "Bad River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. United States Environmental Protection Agency. "Watershed Report: Bad River". WATERS GeoViewer. Archived from the original on 2021-07-05. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
3. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed November 7, 2011
4. ^ "Sedimentation Reduction Project in the Bad River Watershed". Ithaca, Michigan: Gratiot Conservation District. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
5. "Funding Available in the Bad River Watershed!". Ithaca, Michigan: Gratiot Conservation District. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
6. Dustin, Fred (1949). Saginaw History. Saginaw, Michigan. p. 11.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

This Gratiot County, Michigan location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This Saginaw County, Michigan location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This article related to a river in Michigan is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Rivers of Michigan
• Rivers of Gratiot County, Michigan
• Rivers of Saginaw County, Michigan
• Tributaries of Lake Huron
• Lower Peninsula, Michigan, geography stubs
• Michigan river stubs