Blanchard River

Blanchard River at Findlay

Map of Blanchard Rivers within the catchment area of ​​the Maumee River.

It drains predominantly agricultural land, which is located in the basin of Lake Erie. It rises in central Hardin County about 8 km northwest of the town of Kenton and flows 40 km in the north to eastern Hancock County. He then turns to the west, touching the towns Findlay and Ottawa and flows approximately 3.2 km to the north of Cloverdale in western Putnam County in the Auglaize River.

The Blanchard River was after Jean Jacques Blanchard, a French tailor, named 1769 amid the Shawnee settled near the present town of Mount Blanchard river. He married a Shawneefrau and had seven children with her. In the war of 1812 caused General William Hull, commander of the Ohiotruppen, to build a road to the river for transporting troops. Colonel James Findley erected for the defense of a fort, which was surrounded by a palisade. According to him, the city was named Findlay, which was created in 1815 in this area.

The river is in the spring-time flood. The first report on flood damage dates from the early 19th century when the residents were forced to flee at the shore in the higher orchards. In the years 2007, 2008 and 2009, the river flooded the dams in Findlay more than a dozen times and damaged numerous residential and commercial buildings.

Name Variants

The river has several name variants:

• Blanchard Fork
• Blanchard 's Fork
• Blanchard's Fork
• Quegh -tu- wa
• Quegh - tua -wa
• Queghtuwa
• Sha -po - qua -te- sepe
• Sha -po - qua -te- sepi
• Tailor 's River
• Tailors River