Indian River (Mullett Lake)

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Indian River
Indian River from North Central State Trail Cheboygan County Michigan.jpg
The Indian River viewed from the North Central State Trail in the community of Indian River
Location
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationBurt Lake, Cheboygan County, Michigan
 • elevation594 ft (181 m)[1]
Mouth 
 • location
Mullett Lake, Cheboygan County, Michigan
 • elevation
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 flowing from Burt Lake at

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45°24′37″N 84°37′19″W / 45.41028°N 84.62194°W / 45.41028; -84.62194 to Mullett Lake at
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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. ^ a b 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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