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AUDIT ROW #428 · ISWS CONTRACT REPORT 2000-03 · THE RISE PAIR PRINTED WHOLE
The Kankakee rises in the marshes southwest of South Bend and runs about a hundred and fifty miles to its marriage with the Des Plaines — and the first discipline of this article is that almost none of that course is Walkerton's: the river bounds the township's world without crossing the town's ground, and the water that made the townsite is Pine Creek's.5,165 square miles — 2,996 in Indiana and 2,169 in Illinois; the main stem runs about 150 miles in total, 59 of them in Illinois, from headwaters near South Bend southwest and west across the drained Grand Kankakee Marsh country, past Kankakee, Illinois, to the confluence with the Des Plaines River where the two form the Illinois River. A second, GNIS-derived telling circulates with different figures — 133 miles, with the source plotted in Portage Township at 41.6541°N, 86.3053°W — and both tellings are printed with their sources, as the checklist's whole-river item requires when the authorities differ: the Water Survey's ~150 (a measured basin course, marsh channels included) against the gazetteer tradition's 133. The rise itself stands in the banked set in two tellings that this build has agreed to leave printed side by side: Campbell places the river's rise in section 16, Township 37 North, Range 2 East, and Chapman places it in section 9 of the same township and rangeFor Walkerton the operative facts are downstream and modest: the river is the township's northern horizon and its drainage's destination — the ditches run to it — and the town's site, its mill seats, and its story belong to Pine Creek and the creek's edge, which is where the next articles stay.
Principal sources: Bhowmik & Demissie, The Kankakee River