{{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox river | name = Kawkawlin River | image = | image_size = | image_caption = | source1_location = Bay County, Michigan | mouth_location = Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = United States | progression = | length = | source1_elevation = | mouth_elevation = | discharge1_avg = | basin_size = | river_system = | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = }} The '''Kawkawlin River''' is a {{convert|17.5|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}<ref name=NHD>U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |date=2012-03-29 }}, accessed November 7, 2011</ref> stream in the U.S. state of Michigan that flows into Saginaw Bay of Lake Huron at {{coord|43|39|30|N|83|53|00|W|region:US-MI_type:river_source:GNIS}},<ref name="KR">{{gnis|629483|Kawkawlin River}}</ref> approximately {{convert|1|mi}} west of the mouth of the Saginaw River.
The name Kawkawlin comes from the Ojibwe word ''ogaakaaning'', which means "place of pike (fish)"; the Kawkawlin River was historically known for its abundance of pike.<ref>http://www.kawkawlinriver.org/river-history.html</ref>
The Kawkawlin has two main branches, the North Branch, which is the longer branch, and the South Branch, which is also known as simply the Kawkawlin River. The confluence of the north and south branches northwest of Bay City at {{coord|43|38|43|N|83|57|11|W|region:US-MI_type:river_source:GNIS}}, 4.7 miles from the mouth of the river.<ref name="NBKR">{{gnis|633516|North Branch Kawkawlin River}}</ref> The North Branch rises from the confluence of Hoffman Drain and Watson Drain at {{coord|43|49|48|N|84|10|21|W|region:US-MI_type:river_source:GNIS}}, at the southeast corner of Gladwin County.<ref name="NBKR" /> Upstream from the confluence with the North Branch, the Kawkawlin (or the South Branch), rises from the confluence of Dietline and Betzoid drains at {{coord|43|39|32|N|84|04|01|W|region:US-MI_type:river_source:GNIS}}.<ref name="KR" />
The Kawkawlin River system drains all or portions of the following townships: * In Bay County ** Bangor Township ** Beaver Township ** Garfield Township ** Kawkawlin Township ** Monitor Township ** Mount Forest ** Williams Township * In Gladwin County ** Bentley Township ** Grim Township (via Chubb Drain) * In Midland County ** Larkin Township (via Waldo Drain and the Dietline Drain system) ** Midland Township (via Dingman and Waldo drains) ** Mills Township (via Kawkawlin Creek) *In Saginaw County ** Tittabawassee Township (via Culver Creek)
== Tributaries == * (right) Indian Town Drain<ref>{{gnis|629019|Indian Town Drain}}</ref> * (left) Millpond Drain<ref>{{gnis|632418|Millpond Drain}}</ref> * (right) North Branch Kawkawlin River<ref name="NBKR" /> ** (left) Popp Drain<ref>{{gnis|635246|Popp Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Hembling Drain<ref>{{gnis|628074|Hembling Drain}}</ref> *** (right) McNally Drain<ref>{{gnis|632005|McNally Drain}}</ref> *** (right) Reinhardt Drain<ref>{{gnis|635790|Reinhardt Drain}}</ref> *** (left) Everson Drain<ref>{{gnis|625716|Everson Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Garvey Drain<ref>{{gnis|626680|Garvey Drain}}</ref> ** (right) Kerr Drain<ref>{{gnis|1618526|Kerr Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Lapan Drain<ref>{{gnis|630145|Lapan Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Bedell Drain<ref>{{gnis|620981|Bedell Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Hearit Drain<ref>{{gnis|628031|Hearit Drain}}</ref> ** (right) McDonald Drain<ref>{{gnis|631874|McDonald Drain}}</ref> ** (right) Kawalski Drain<ref>{{gnis|629478|Kawalski Drain}}</ref> ** (right) Crump Drain<ref>{{gnis|624157|Crump Drain}}</ref> ** (right) Renner Drain<ref>{{gnis|635797|Renner Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Sequin Drain<ref>{{gnis|637581|Sequin Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Bleshenski Drain<ref>{{gnis|621578|Bleshenski Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Torey Drain<ref>{{gnis|1614974|Torey Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Gunn Drain<ref>{{gnis|627540|Gunn Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Kawkawlin Creek<ref name="KC">{{gnis|629481|Kawkawlin Creek}}</ref> *** (right) Herner Drain<ref>{{gnis|628140|Herner Drain}}</ref> **** (right) Wright Drain<ref>{{gnis|1616838|Wright Drain}}</ref> *** Kawkawlin Creek Flooding<ref name="KC" /> ** (left) Hoffman Drain<ref>{{gnis|628376|Hoffman Drain}}</ref> ** (right) Watson Drain<ref>{{gnis|1615875|Watson Drain}}</ref> *** (left) Chubb Drain<ref>{{gnis|623275|Chubb Drain}}</ref> *** (right) Gear Drain<ref>{{gnis|626698|Gear Drain}}</ref> * (right) Hildebrandt Drain<ref>{{gnis|628268|Hildebrandt Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Anderson Drain<ref>{{gnis|620094|Anderson Drain}}</ref> * (left) Culver Creek<ref>{{gnis|624196|Culver Creek}}</ref> * (left) Wolverine Drain<ref>{{gnis|1616714|Wolverine Drain}}</ref> * (left) Bradford Creek<ref>{{gnis|621842|Bradford Creek}}</ref> * (left) Pine Drain<ref>{{gnis|634919|Pine Drain}}</ref> * (left) Phillips Drain<ref>{{gnis|634760|Phillips Drain}}</ref> * (left) Hoppler Creek<ref>{{gnis|628583|Hoppler Creek}}</ref> ** (left) Dell Creek<ref>{{gnis|624531|Dell Creek}}</ref> * (left) Perry Creek<ref>{{gnis|634670|Perry Creek}}</ref> * (left) Dingman Drain<ref>{{gnis|624688|Dingman Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Mason Drain<ref>{{gnis|631706|Mason Drain}}</ref> * (left) DeShano Drain<ref>{{gnis|624398|DeShano Drain}}</ref> * (right) Betzold Drain<ref>{{gnis|621254|Betzold Drain}}</ref> ** (right) Campbell Drain<ref>{{gnis|622659|Campbell Drain}}</ref> * (left) Dietline Drain<ref>{{gnis|624672|Dietline Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Cassube Drain<ref>{{gnis|622861|Cassube Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Waldo Drain<ref>{{gnis|1615683|Waldo Drain}}</ref> *** (right) Davis Drain<ref>{{gnis|624340|Davis Drain}}</ref> **** (left) Shinbines Drain<ref>{{gnis|637803|Shinbines Drain}}</ref> **** (right) Prasty Drain<ref>{{gnis|635398|Prasty Drain}}</ref> *** (left) Livingstone Drain<ref>{{gnis|630840|Livingstone Drain}}</ref> *** (left) Wenglikowski Drain<ref>{{gnis|1616000|Wenglikowski Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Vogtman Drain<ref>{{gnis|1615617|Vogtman Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Panzer Drain<ref>{{gnis|634338|Panzer Drain}}</ref> ** (right) Kaiser Drain<ref>{{gnis|629434|Kaiser Drain}}</ref> ** (left) Kraweck Drain<ref>{{gnis|629479|Kraweck Drain}}</ref> *** (left) Pashok Drain<ref>{{gnis|634444|Pashok Drain}}</ref>
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Category:Rivers of Michigan Category:Rivers of Bay County, Michigan Category:Rivers of Gladwin County, Michigan Category:Rivers of Midland County, Michigan Category:Tributaries of Lake Huron Category:Saginaw Bay