{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} The '''Kewaunee River''' is a {{convert|27.9|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 December 19, 2011</ref> river in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.<ref>{{GNIS|1567446}}</ref> It begins near Frog Station in northwest Kewaunee County and flows southeast to empty into Lake Michigan at the city of Kewaunee.
On a yearly basis, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources stocks approximately 72,000 Chinook salmon, 132,000 coho salmon, 102,000 steelhead and 54,000 brown trout into the Kewaunee River, hoping to imprint them to the river so that when they mature they return to it and will be captured for egg collection.<ref>[https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/wi-comorant-ea.pdf Environmental Assessment: Reducing Double-Crested Cormorant Damage in Wisconsin] by the Wildlife Services program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, April 20, 2009, page 26</ref>
==Gallery== {{gallery|mode=packed|align=center|width=135|height=135 |File:Cropped aerial view of part of the Kewaunee River in the towns of Casco and West Kewaunee in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin 2020.png|Aerial photo of the river passing from the town of Casco into the town of West Kewaunee, taken August 7, 2020. |File:Aerial view of Kewaunee, Wisconsin 2020.png|Mouth of the river into Lake Michigan, taken June 27, 2020 |File:Kewaunee River.jpg|Shooting star seen through an aurora, taken over the Kewaunee River. }} ==See also== * C.D. "Buzz" Besadny Anadromous Fish Facility * Ahnapee State Trail, runs partly along the Kewaunee River
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Category:Rivers of Wisconsin Category:Bodies of water of Kewaunee County, Wisconsin
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