The Kalamazoo River basin, situated between the Grand and St. Joseph rivers in southwest Michigan, is the seventh largest river basin in Michigan. The river begins as a spring fed pond in northern Hillsdale County and flows in a northerly arc through the cities of Albion and Battle Creek. The river flows west to Kalamazoo and makes an abrupt turn to the north toward Plainwell. It meanders northwest from there until it reaches Kalamazoo Lake and Lake Michigan at the city of Saugatuck. The Kalamazoo River mainstem is 175 miles long, and its tributary streams total an additional 899 miles.
The river drains a watershed of 2,020 square miles that include all or parts of Hillsdale, Jackson, Eaton, Calhoun, Barry, Kalamazoo, Kent, Ottawa, Van Buren, and Allegan counties. Its major tributaries are the North Branch Kalamazoo, Gun, and Rabbit rivers and Rice, Battle, Wabascon, Augusta, and Portage creeks.
There are 287 lakes greater than 10 acres within the basin. Two hundred are between 10 and 50 acres, 40 are between 50 and 100 acres, and 47 are greater than 100 acres in size. Gun Lake is the largest lake at 2,661 acres followed by Gull Lake at 2,046 acres and Lake Allegan at 1,711acres.
52 degrees when I woke up. It was nice when I let the dog out.
When the weather is dull, it’s a perfect time for these educational posts. I enjoy them. Thanks!
In weather news currently it’s 32* degrees out at thee YARDofBRICKS a cool start to the day the topic is water sheds.with 3 more storms coming this week we will be adding to the water issues in West Michigan with possible flooding ….Quick thought I talked to Bill Steffens last night the chief he said we have a stormy end to March into April coming up possible severe Weather hopefully MV will start posting severe Weather safety we are getting there have a great Tuesday …INDY
WOOD now has 58 degrees for Thursday! Will we hit 60+ again? And then back into the 50’s again for Monday and Tuesday. I love it!
Wow, yesterday was +20 degrees above average! GR is now +6.2 degrees above average for March and going for our 4th warm month in a row.
Get ready for a major cold front by the end of this week! Lows in the 20’s and highs barely in the low 40’s! Have fun golfing in that mess, I will be up North skiing! Plenty of snow up there and the snow making will be in full force! I love these long winters that start in early Nov and just keep rocking!
Umm 50 degrees and rain all day Thursday in Petoskey. Count me out.