WEBThe Kaskaskia River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 325 miles (523 km) long, in central and southern Illinois in the United States. The second largest river system within Illinois, it drains a rural area of farms, as well as rolling hills along river bottoms of hardwood forests in its lower reaches.
WEBDescription: The Kaskaskia River is the largest stream found entirely within Illinois. From its headwaters just west of Champaign to its mouth on the Mississippi River above Chester, the Kaskaskia winds its way across nearly 300 miles of central and southwestern Illinois.
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Kaskaskia River | Mississippi, Missouri, tributary | Britannica
WEBKaskaskia River, partly navigable stream in central and southern Illinois, U.S. It rises in Champaign county near Urbana and flows southwest to enter the Mississippi River north of Chester, in Randolph county, after a course of 320 miles (515 km). About 50 miles (80 km) from its source the.
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Kaskaskia River - Illinois Department of Natural Resources
WEBKaskaskia River. Baldwin Lake Brochure (part of Kaskaskia River SFWA) The Kaskaskia River State Fish & Wildlife Area is one of the largest state-owned and managed sites in Illinois. Located 35 miles southeast of St. Louis, Missouri, the area comprises more than 20,000 acres and extends along the Kaskaskia River from Fayetteville to the ...
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Kaskaskia | Native American, French Colonial, Mississippi River
WEBKaskaskia, village, Randolph county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It is situated on Kaskaskia Island in the Mississippi River, just west of Chester. Kaskaskia Island is the only portion of Illinois located west of the Mississippi River. Illinois …
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Kaskaskia River State Fish and Wildlife Area - Hunt Illinois
WEBThe Kaskaskia River is Illinois’s second-longest and one of the state’s major tributaries to the Mississippi. It begins near Champaign and flows south and west to the Mississippi, joining the...
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About Kaskaskia River - Illinois Department of Natural Resources
WEBNatural Features. Kaskaskia River SFWA possesses a wide variety of terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Water acres include not only the Kaskaskia River with its associated side channel and backwater areas (2,200 acres), but also Baldwin Lake (2,018 acres) and Peabody-River King State Fish and Wildlife Area (2,200 acres).
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St. Louis District > Missions > Recreation > Kaskaskia River Project …
WEBThe Kaskaskia River Basin is large, encompassing parts or all of 22 counties, with 30 main tributaries and 5,840 square miles of drainage. It is the major tributary of the Mississippi River,...
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Kaskaskia River Watershed - HeartLands Conservancy
WEBTwo large reservoirs, Carlyle Lake and Lake Shelbyville, add another 37,000+ acres of surface water. The elevation at the Kaskaskia River headwaters is 740 feet NVGD and drops to 368 feet NVGD at the Kaskaskia Lock and Dam near the confluence with the Mississippi River. The watershed has many ecologically rich resources.
