# Sheboygan River
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{{Short description|River in Wisconsin, United States}}
{{About|the river in Wisconsin|the river in Michigan|Cheboygan River|other places with the same name|Sheboygan (disambiguation){{!}}Sheboygan}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox river
|image=SheboyganRiverRiverfront.jpg
|image_caption=Riverfront in downtown [Sheboygan](/source/Sheboygan%2C_Wisconsin) near the river's mouth
|length={{convert|81|mi|abbr=on}}
|mouth=[Lake Michigan](/source/Lake_Michigan)
|mouth_coordinates={{coord|43.74888|N|87.70314|W|source:GNIStemplate_region:US-WI|display=inline,title}}
|source1_coordinates={{coord|43.7097152|N|88.267878|W|source:GNIStemplate_region:US-WI}}
|pushpin_map=Wisconsin
|subdivision_type1=Counties
|subdivision_name1=[Fond du Lac](/source/Fond_du_Lac_County%2C_Wisconsin); [Sheboygan](/source/Sheboygan_County%2C_Wisconsin); [Calumet](/source/Calumet_County%2C_Wisconsin); [Manitowoc](/source/Manitowoc_County%2C_Wisconsin)
|subdivision_type2=Cities
|subdivision_name2=[Eden](/source/Eden%2C_Wisconsin); [Dundee](/source/Dundee%2C_Wisconsin); [St. Peter](/source/St._Peter%2C_Wisconsin); [St. Cloud](/source/St._Cloud%2C_Wisconsin); [Elkhart Lake](/source/Elkhart_Lake%2C_Wisconsin); [Kiel](/source/Kiel%2C_Wisconsin); [Sheboygan Falls](/source/Sheboygan_Falls%2C_Wisconsin)
}}
thumb|Map
[[Image:SheboyganRiverMouth.jpg|thumb|right|The mouth of the Sheboygan River into [Lake Michigan](/source/Lake_Michigan)]]
[[Image:SheboyganRiverKielWisconsinFrozen.jpg|thumb|right|The frozen Sheboygan River in [Kiel](/source/Kiel%2C_Wisconsin)]]
The '''Sheboygan River''' is a [river](/source/river) flowing to [Lake Michigan](/source/Lake_Michigan) in eastern [Wisconsin](/source/Wisconsin) in the [United States](/source/United_States). It is about {{convert|81|mi|abbr=on}} long[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map], accessed December 19, 2011] and enters the lake at the city of [Sheboygan](/source/Sheboygan%2C_Wisconsin). The name of the river is [Chippewa](/source/Chippewa_language) in origin, ''Shawb-wa-way-gun'', meaning 'hollow bone', 'noise underground' or 'river disappearing underground'.[{{cite news|title=Winnebago Took Its Name from an Indian Tribe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/915335/wisconsin_county_names/|newspaper=The Post-Crescent|date=December 28, 1963|page=14|via = [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)|accessdate = August 25, 2014 }} {{Open access}}][{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCEl1sqlZLQC&q=Sheboygan+underground+river&pg=PA481|title=Wisconsin Encyclopedia|first=Jennifer|last=Herman|date=January 1, 2008|publisher=State History Publications|isbn=9781878592613|via=Google Books}}]
==Course==
The Sheboygan River rises in eastern [Fond du Lac County](/source/Fond_du_Lac_County%2C_Wisconsin) and initially flows northeastwardly through northwestern [Sheboygan County](/source/Sheboygan_County%2C_Wisconsin), southeastern [Calumet County](/source/Calumet_County%2C_Wisconsin) and southwestern [Manitowoc County](/source/Manitowoc_County%2C_Wisconsin) before turning southeastwardly back into Sheboygan County. Along its course the river flows past the village of [St. Cloud](/source/St._Cloud%2C_Wisconsin), the cities of [Kiel](/source/Kiel%2C_Wisconsin) and [Sheboygan Falls](/source/Sheboygan_Falls%2C_Wisconsin), the village of [Kohler](/source/Kohler%2C_Wisconsin) and the city of Sheboygan, where it enters Lake Michigan. At Sheboygan Falls it collects its two largest [tributaries](/source/tributary), the [Mullet River](/source/Mullet_River) and the [Onion River](/source/Onion_River_(Sheboygan_River)).
==Water quality==
Because of past heavy manufacturing on the eastern portion of the river from companies such as [Tecumseh Products](/source/Tecumseh_Products) in Sheboygan Falls, [Kohler Company](/source/Kohler_Company), and the predecessor companies of [Wisconsin Public Service](/source/Wisconsin_Public_Service) near Sheboygan's downtown, the riverbed has a high concentration of [PCB](/source/Polychlorinated_biphenyl)s and other chemicals which make any form of swimming in the river east of Sheboygan Falls' western limits impossible, thus it has been a working [Superfund](/source/Superfund) site from the Sheboygan Falls Dam (approximately at Monroe Street in that city eastward) since June 1986. Dredging along the section most affected by Tecumseh was completed in 2005, while dredging of the former Camp Marina/WPS site in Sheboygan was completed by the summer of 2012.[{{cite web|url=http://www.epa.gov/region05/cleanup/sheboygan/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102112439/http://www.epa.gov/region05/cleanup/sheboygan/|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 2, 2012|title=Sheboygan River and Harbor Superfund Site|publisher=[Environmental Protection Agency](/source/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency)|accessdate=15 September 2011}}] Cautions on [fishing](/source/fishing) and warnings about consumption of fish in the Sheboygan River east of the Falls Dam are also enforced by the [Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources](/source/Wisconsin_Department_of_Natural_Resources), and posted at all boat launches along Sheboygan's river frontage.
==See also==
*[List of Wisconsin rivers](/source/List_of_Wisconsin_rivers)
==References==
{{reflist}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050427095101/http://reference.allrefer.com/gazetteer/S/S09973-sheboygan-river.html Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry]
*[DeLorme](/source/DeLorme) (1992). ''Wisconsin Atlas & Gazetteer''. Freeport, Maine: DeLorme. {{ISBN|0-89933-247-1}}.
*{{Gnis|1573998}}
==External links==
{{Commons category|Sheboygan River}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/19990221112303/http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/aoc/sheboygan.html Environmental Protection Agency report on pollutants in the lower Sheboygan River]
*[http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/gmu/sheboygan/ Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Sheboygan River Basin page]
*[http://www.sheboyganrivers.org Sheboygan River Basin Partnership website]
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Category:Rivers of Wisconsin
Category:Rivers of Calumet County, Wisconsin
Category:Rivers of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
Category:Rivers of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
Category:Rivers of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
Category:Tributaries of Lake Michigan
Category:Superfund sites in Wisconsin
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