Black River (St. Clair River tributary) explained

Black River
Image Alt:	A color photograph of the Black River as viewed from a bridge in Port Huron, Michigan
Map:	Black River (Sanilac and St. Clair counties, Michigan).png
Map Alt:	A map of the Black River and its watershed
Subdivision Type1:	Country
Subdivision Name1:	United States
Subdivision Type2:	State
Subdivision Name2:	Michigan
Subdivision Type3:	Counties
Subdivision Name3:	Sanilac, St. Clair
Source1 Location:	northern Sanilac County
Source1 Coordinates:	43.6833°N -82.8153°W
Mouth Location:	St. Clair River, Port Huron
Mouth Coordinates:	42.9719°N -82.4183°W
Mouth Elevation:	574feet
Basin Size:	711mi2

Black River is an 81adj=midNaNadj=mid^[1] river in the U.S. state of Michigan, flowing into the St. Clair River in the city of Port Huron. The Black River Canal in northern Port Huron extends east into Lake Huron near Krafft Road.

The river rises in northern Sanilac County, near the boundary with Huron County, and its 711mi2^[2] drainage basin covers most of the central and southern portions of Sanilac County, most of northern St. Clair County, and portions of east central Lapeer County. Large sections of the upper portion of the river and much of its drainage basin are heavily channelized for agricultural irrigation. Black River was the original name of the city of Croswell at the time of its founding in 1845.^[3]

Tributaries

Main stream from the mouth to Mill Creek

(left) Stocks Creek
- (right) Price Drain
- (left) Baldwin Drain
(right) Black River Canal
- Howe Drain
  - (left) Warner Drain
  - (right) Brandymore Drain

Mill Creek

(left) Mill Creek
- (left) Gleason Drain
- (left) White Drain
- (left) Sheehy Drain
  - (right) Thody Drain
- (left) Thompson Drain
- (right) Sanilac and Saint Clair Drain
  - (right) Cole Drain
- (right) Ohmer Drain
- (left) Middleton Drain
- (left) Meharg Drain

North Branch Mill Creek

(right) North Branch Mill Creek
- (right) Wait Drain
- (right) Root Drain
  - (right) Kenney Drain
- (left) Flansburg Drain
- (left) East Goodland Drain
- (right) Willoughby Drain
  - (left) Evans and McKillen Drain
  - (left) Willoughby Branch
    - (right) Scott Drain
    - (left) Toman Drain
- (right) Clarkson Drain
  - (left) Courter Drain
- (right) Madison Drain
- (left) Stevenson Drain
  - (right) West Branch Stevenson Drain
- (left) Crowe Drain
- (right) Wilkie Drain
- (left) Anchor Drain

Elk Lake Creek

(left) Elk Lake Creek
- (right) Brant Lake Drain
  - (right) Pickerel Lake
    - Devall Drain
  - (right) Simmons Lake
  - (left) Cranberry Lake
    - Mitchell Lakes
  - (right) Winn Drain
- Stanton Lakes
  - Rose Lake
- (right) Mud Lake Drain
  - Mud Lake
- (left) Lombar Drain
  - (right) Cadillac Drain
- (right) Swamp Corners Drain
  - (right) Barber Drain
  - (left) Elgin Drain
- Elk Lake

South Branch Mill Creek

South Branch Mill Creek
- (right) Frasier Drain
- (right) Black Segate Reid Drain
- (left) Lynn Mussey Drain
  - (left) Kaufman Drain
- (left) Kolb Drain
- (right) Galley Drain
- (left) Weitzig Drain
- (left) Mudcat Drain
  - (left) Wendt Drain
  - Petz Lake
    - Hughes Drain
      - Sans Lake
        Baines Lake
        Jurn Drain
- (left) Bunde Drain
- (right) Brandy Run

Main stream from Mill Creek to Black Creek

(left) Glyshaw Drain
(left) O'Dette Drain
(left) Plum Creek
- (right) Engles Drain
  - (left) Pohly Drain
(left) Silver Creek
- (right) Wilson Drain
  - (left) Fueslein Drain
- (right) Eves Drain
- (left) Jackson Drain
  - (right) Hayes Drain
(left) Mason Drain

Black Creek

(left) Black Creek (also known as Seymour Creek)
- (right) William Doan Drain
- (left) Allen Drain
- (right) Seymour Creek (also spelled Seymore Creek)
  - (right) Lawson Drain
  - (left) Crouce Drain
  - (right) Perry Drain (also known as Seymour Creek)
  - (left) Bradley Creek
- (left) Willey Drain
- (left) Jackson Creek
  - (left) Robertson Drain
    - (right) Livergood Drain
  - (left) Teets Drain
- (right) McIntyre and Willing Drain
- (left) Lavell Drain

Main stream from Black Creek to Elk Creek

(left) Mills Creek
(left) Arnot Creek
- (left) McClelland Drain
- (right) Smith Drain
- (left) Taylor Drain
(right) Freeman Drain
(left) Wagner Drain
(left) Papst Drain
- (right) Murray Drain
(right) Kelly Creek
- (left) Kelly Drain

Elk Creek

(left) Elk Creek (also known as Elk River)
- (right) Recor Drain
- (right) Meyers Drain
- (right) Alexander Drain
  - McPherson Drain
- (right) Methven Drain
- (left)Potts Drain (also known as Potts Creek)
  - (right) Rickett Drain
  - (right) Miller Drain
  - (left) Roskey Drain
    - (left) Harlan Drain
  - (left) Baum Drain
  - (right) Rickett Drain
  - (left) French Drain
  - (right) Spring Creek Drain
    - (left) Cork Drain
      - (right) Putney Drain
  - (right) Engle Drain
  - (left) Topping Drain
  - (right) Thomas Drain
  - (left) Hunt Drain
  - (right) Cline Drain
- (right) Watertown State Drain
  - (right) Lynch Drain
- (left) Parks Drain
- (left) Mullen Drain
- (right) Smalldon Drain
- (right) Colebough Drain
- (right) Beals Frizzle Drain
  - (left) Hale Drain
    - (right) Johnson Barrett Drain
    - (right) Eggert Drain
      - (left) Cummer Drain
        (right) Severance Drain
- (right) McElhinney Drain
  - (right) Barr Drain
- (right) McDonald Drain
  - (right) Phillips Drain
  - (right) Eagle Drain
  - (left) Setter Drain
    - (right) Welch Drain
- (left) Powers Drain
- (left) East Branch Speaker and Maple Valley Drain
  - (left) Fletcher Drain
    - (left) McGauley Drain
      - (right) Bowers Drain
    - (left) Bowers Drain
  - (right) Shell Drain
  - (right) Macklem Drain
  - (left) Mullaney Drain
    - (left) Beemer Drain
    - (right) Weston Drain
- (right) Elk Flynn and Maple Valley Drain
  - (left) Jones Drain
    - (left) Omard Drain
- (left) Smafield Drain
- (right) Lapeer and Sanilac Drain
- (left) Hydorn Drain
- (left) Valley Center Drain
- (right) Varney Drain
- (left) York Drain
- (right) Scott Drain

Main stream above Elk Creek

(right) Carsonville Drain
(left) McPherson Drain
(right) McDonald Drain
(right) Shrapnell Drain
(left) Berry Drain
- (right) Fye Drain
  - (left) Baerwolf Drain
  - (right) Kinney Drain
  - (right) Graves Drain
  - (left) Custer County Drain
- (right) Dwight Drain
  - (left) Dunlap Drain
  - (left) Stone Drain
    - (left) Howse Drain
  - (left) Badgero Drain
  - (right) Bradshaw Drain
- Dunlap Drain
- (left) Black Drain
(left) Wilkins Drain
(left) O'Connell Drain
(left) Nicol Drain
- (right) Anderson Drain
  - (left) Freel Drain
(right) Pyette Drain
- Deckerville Reservoir
(left) Smith Drain
(right) Flannigan Drain
(right) Pelton Drain
- (right) Grandy Drain
(left) Thompson Drain
(right) Bishop Drain
- (left) McManus Drain
- (right) Terpinning Drain
(left) Carrol Drain
- Monroe Drain
  - Richie Drain
    - Hewitt Drain
(left) Hewitt Carroll Drain
(right) Darlington Drain
- (right) Doggan Drain
(right) Lloyd Drain

Drainage basin

Lapeer County

St. Clair County

Sanilac County

Notes and References

U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed November 7, 2011
U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset, area data covering Black River watershed (10-digit Hydrologic Unit Codes 0409000101 and 0409000102), viewed in The National Map, accessed 2016-12-02.
Daly, Matthew L., et al. (eds.) (1999). Michigan Encyclopedia 2008-2009 Edition, Vol. 1, p. 229. Somerset Publishers, Inc.