Maquoketa River

North Fork Maquoketa River in Dyersville

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The Maquoketa River is a 241 km long right tributary of the Mississippi River in the northeast of the U.S. state of Iowa. Its catchment area covers a 4387 km ² large mostly agricultural region east and south of Dubuque. The course of the Maquoketa River marks the southern boundary of the Driftless Area that region, which had remained free during the last ice age of the glaciation.

Course

The main run of the Maquoketa River rises southwest of Arlington in Fayette County. It flows first and then to wheel on a total of southeastern course in a northeasterly direction. It flows through it, the Clayton Delaware, the Jones and the Jackson County and the cities have happened Arlington, Strawberry Point, Manchester, Earlville, Hopkinton, Monticello, Miles, Preston and Maquoketa.

In Maquoketa the North Fork Maquoketa River flows into the occasionally also referred to as South Fork Maquoketa River until then the main course of the river. The North Fork Maquoketa River rises in the north of Dubuque County and is located to the confluence 154 km long. At its run to the cities of Dyersville and Cascade.

The course of the united river now runs a meandering manner in an easterly direction to the mouth of the Mississippi, which is in a part of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge above Lock and Dam No.. 13 is located.