Allen County, Indiana Places

St. Joseph River

St. Joe River posted March 22, 2021 by Friends of the Rivers on YouTube.
Discusses the Feeder Canal of Wabash & Erie Canal, Saint Joe Dam, Fort Wayne Filtration Plant, and Hirschtown Reservoir

    1. St. Joseph River (City Commission 1963) by City Plan Commission (Fort Wayne, Ind.) August 1963, Description There are 27 maps one of which is a Key. Then there are two maps per each section of the river. One map describes landownership along the river, types of river debris and/or storm drains and the like, and historical sties. The other corresponding section map describes the river level at designated measuring stations. At the History Center Digital Collection on the mDON mastodon Digital Object Network.
    2. Fort Wayne, IN: Canal Feeder Dam and Robison Amusement Park, 1896-1919 posted February 5, 2020 on Towns and Nature blog included a September 2020 Facebook post that stated: Dam was in middle of “S” curve (see an arial view) on St Joe River by former site of Swift-Goshorn mill at Paradise Lagoon, just downstream from feeder canal (Summit Point). The earthen dikes are on both sides of the river, if you know where to look. This area is undeveloped floodplain, just east of Northpointe Woods clubhouse. I believe some of that is now private property, but it used to belong to City of Ft Wayne, before that it was the old Kroemer farm. I used to go back there in the seventies. Interesting thing is that area was meant to be the originally proposed site of the Fort’s backup water supply. They had planned to dam the river again in the twenties/thirties, but instead opted for the Cedarville Reservoir further upstream.
    3. St Joseph River (Lake Erie) Watershed TMDL at Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The St. Joseph River watershed (SJRW) is in northwestern Ohio, south central Michigan, and northeast Indiana. The watershed encompasses approximately 1,085 square miles and drains to the Maumee River. The SJRW consists of one 8-digit hydrologic unit (hydrologic unit code [HUC] 04100003) that is further subdivided into eight 10-digit hydrologic units. The Indiana portion of the SJRW consists of 591 square miles including Fish Creek (0410000304), Cedar Creek (0410000307), Sol Shank Ditch (0410000305), Matson Ditch (0410000306), and St. Joseph River (0410000308) 10-digit HUC watersheds.
    4. St. Joseph River dam video posted April 9, 2017 by Tom Mauger on You are positively from Fort Wayne, if you remember... Archived group only visible to existing members on Facebook.
    5. St. Joseph River Watershed Initiative

St. Joe River Dam posted March 22, 2021 by Friends of the Rivers on YouTube.
Mentions several places such as the Water Filtration plant and Fort Wayne Municipal Beach.

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