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Rivers
The river that names this county never touches Granger. The St. Joseph River runs south of the CDP, through Mishawaka and South Bend, and Granger's share of it is a basin, not a bank: the ground drains to it through Juday Creek and Willow Creek. This addendum therefore works at two sizes at once. The main stem is dug whole — source to mouth, the two-rivers-one-name problem, the working navigation, the dams — because the rows direct the basin frame at that size. Granger's own creeks are dug at full size on their own record: every named water inside the line, the crossings the record can and cannot date, and the gauge's own flood series, printed as a river record and not as a disaster story.
The river itself, whole: Baw Beese Lake to Lake Michigan
Source in Hillsdale County, Michigan · mouth at St. Joseph / Benton Harbor, Michigan · the bend at South Bend
The St. Joseph River of Lake Michigan (USGS GNIS ID 1624891) rises at Baw Beese Lake in Hillsdale County, Michigan, and ends in Lake Michigan at St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, Michigan. Its course is a great S. From the Hillsdale…
Every named water inside the line: Juday, Willow, Sheffield, and the ditches
Clay and Harris townships · the tributary inventory, including the culverted and converted reaches
Juday Creek is Granger's principal water, and the record already carry it whole; the working detail assembled here sits alongside that record without re-litigating it. The banked length-and-basin conflict stands as printed in the…
The working river: keelboats, steamboats, the lock, and the races
1679–1911 · the St. Joseph reach this ground faces — South Bend and Mishawaka, boundary size
The working-river record is Otto M. Knoblock's "Early Navigation on the St. Joseph River" ( Indiana Historical Society Publications , Vol. 8 No. 4, 1925), read whole. The river was a freight road before it was anything else. The…
Every dam on the reach — and the printed negative for Juday Creek
1837–1903 · St. Joseph County reach of the St. Joseph River; Juday Creek tested against the national and state rolls
Mishawaka's first dam, 1837. The Indiana Historical Bureau marker at Race and First Streets, Mishawaka (marker 71.1968.1; HMdb gives 41°39.752′N, 86°10.676′W), records: "The original dam, providing power for which Mishawaka was…
The crossings: an inventory the record supports, and the succession it cannot yet give
Juday Creek crossings in Clay and Harris townships · a NAMED GAP for the per-structure succession
The crossings of Juday Creek are fixed in the record by the creek's own science before they are fixed by any bridge roll. The U.S. Geological Survey's 1993–94 sediment study of the creek (Fowler and Wilson, WRIR 95-4135) worked…
Floods as a river record: the gauge's own crest series
USGS 04101370, Judy Creek near South Bend, Indiana · peak-streamflow file retrieved November 11, 2026
The gauge is USGS station 04101370 — styled "JUDY Creek Near South Bend, IN" in the federal record, the old spelling the record already note — on Juday Creek near its mouth. Its record runs: discharge from October 1, 1992 to July…