Indian River (Mullett Lake)

Indian River

The Indian River viewed from the North Central State Trail in the community of Indian River
Country United States
Basin features
Main source Burt Lake, Cheboygan County, Michigan
594 ft (181 m)[1]
River mouth Mullett Lake, Cheboygan County, Michigan
594 ft (181 m)[2]

Indian River in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is a 3.9-mile-long (6.3 km)[3] waterway in Cheboygan County that flows from Burt Lake at 45°24′37″N 84°37′19″W / 45.41028°N 84.62194°W / 45.41028; -84.62194 to Mullett Lake at 45°27′05″N 84°34′39″W / 45.45139°N 84.57750°W / 45.45139; -84.57750.[2] The unincorporated community of Indian River is named after the river.

The river is part of the great Inland Waterway of Michigan, by which one can boat from Crooked Lake several miles east of Petoskey on the Little Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan across the northern tip of the lower peninsula's "mitten" to Cheboygan on Lake Huron.

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Burt Lake
  2. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Indian River
  3. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-04-05 at WebCite, accessed November 21, 2011


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