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Rock River(Illinois) |
The Rock River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 285 miles (459 km) long, in the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Illinois.
It rises in southeast Wisconsin, in southwest Fond du Lac County, approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of Ripon and 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Lake Winnebago. It flows south, through the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge, then meanders southward draining the area of southeast Wisconsin between the Wisconsin River and Lake Michigan. It passes Watertown, Jefferson, and receives the Bark River at Fort Atkinson. In northern Rock County it receives the Yahara River, and flows southward through Janesville and Beloit into northern Illinois, where it receives the Pecatonica River 5 miles (8 km) south of the state line.
It flows south through Rockford, then southwest across northwestern Illinois. passing Oregon, Dixon and Rock Falls, where it becomes navigable. It joins the Mississippi at Rock Island.
Cities and villages along the river
- Coal Valley, Illinois
- Beloit, Wisconsin
- Byron, Illinois
- Dixon, Illinois
- Grand Detour, Illinois
- Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
- Horicon, Wisconsin
- Hustisford, Wisconsin
- Janesville, Wisconsin
Rock River flooding downtown Fort Atkinson, June 2004.
- Jefferson, Wisconsin
- Loves Park, Illinois
- Lyndon, Illinois
- Machesney Park, Illinois
- Mayville, Wisconsin
- Milan, Illinois
- Moline, Illinois
- Oregon, Illinois
- Prophetstown, Illinois
- Rock Falls, Illinois
- Rock Island, Illinois
- Rockford, Illinois
- Rockton, Illinois
- Roscoe, Illinois
- South Beloit, Illinois
- Sterling, Illinois
- Theresa, Wisconsin
- Watertown, Wisconsin
References in popular culture
The Rock River Valley, recorded by folk musician Art Thieme on the LP "Songs of the Heartland" (1980, Kicking Mule Records)
See also
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