Rock River (Mississippi River)
Rock River in Rockford IL
Catchment area of the Rock River
Flooding of the Rock River below Fort Atkinson in June 2004
The Rock River is a 459 km long tributary of the Mississippi River in the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Illinois. Of this, 262.3 km through Illinois.
It rises in southeast Wisconsin, in the southwestern part of the Fond du Lac County, approximately 16 km south of Ripon and 40 km southwest of Winnebagosees. It flows south through the Horicon Marsh and then meanders through the area between the Wisconsin River and Lake Michigan. He happened Watertown, Jefferson. The Bark River discharges into Fort Atkinson and in northern Rock County leads the Yahara River in the Rock River. The river then flows in a southerly direction over Janesville and Beloit in northern Illinois, where 8 km south of the state border joins the Pecatonica River.
The Rock River continues its way south over Rockford and turns to continue to the southwest of Oregon, Dixon and Rock Falls over, from where the river is navigable. The confluence with the Mississippi River is at rock Iceland.
Places along the river ( in flow direction)
- Theresa, WI
- Mayville, WI
- Horicon, WI
- Hustisford, WI
- Watertown, WI
- Jefferson, WI
- Fort Atkinson, WI
- Janesville, WI
- Beloit, WI
- South Beloit, IL
- Rockton, IL
- Roscoe, IL
- Machesney Park, IL
- Loves Park, IL
- Rockford, IL
- Byron, IL
- Oregon, IL
- Dixon, IL
- Sterling, IL
- Rock Falls, IL
- Lyndon, IL
- Prophetstown, IL
- Coal Valley, IL
- Milan, IL
- Moline, IL
- Rock Iceland, IL