Maumee+River

=Maumee River= Maumee River webpage Maumee River map
 * =Birding in Ohio=

Tips for birding Maumee River Rapids
From Lake Erie Birding Trail website From Ohio Ornithological Society website

Independence Dam SP
Coordinates: 41.2914798, -84.2750931 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Mary Jane Thurston SP
Coordinates: 41.411192, -83.8848209 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Mary Jane Thurston SP--North Turkeyfoot Area East Access
Coordinates: 41.4163705, -83.9845884 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Mary Jane Thurston SP--North Turkeyfoot Area West Access
Coordinates: 41.4124408, -83.9967227 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Meyerholtz Wildlife Area
Coordinates: 41.3729618, -84.1500592 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Miami Wabash & Erie Canal Park
Coordinates: 41.4196652, -83.9002436 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

South Turkeyfoot Creek Fishing Access
Coordinates: 41.4134514, -83.9738595 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Audubon Islands State Nature Preserve
Coordinates: 41.5660135, -83.6381435 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Bay View Park
Coordinates: 41.6959289, -83.4729141 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Bend View Metropark
Coordinates: 41.4498238, -83.7936278 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Delaware Island
Coordinates: 41.602704, -83.592597 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Farnsworth Metropark
Coordinates: 41.4826746, -83.7430447 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

International Park
Coordinates: 41.6468292, -83.5275722 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Maumee River @ I-280
Coordinates: 41.65996, -83.5130882 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Maumee River Mouth
Coordinates: 41.6981668, -83.4639931 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Maumee River Rapids
Coordinates: 41.5522052, -83.6680126 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Maumee River--Jerome Rd. Rapids
Coordinates: 41.5377836, -83.6968732 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Maumee River--Roche De Boeuf
Coordinates: 41.4870722, -83.7285662 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Missionary Island Wildlife Area
Coordinates: 41.472573, -83.747749 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Museum of the Great Lakes
Coordinates: 41.656882, -83.5150623 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Providence Metropark
Coordinates: 41.4176288, -83.8565183 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Riverside Drive Marina District
Coordinates: 41.6518959, -83.5230446 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Side Cut Metropark
[Coordinates: 41.5568458, -83.6716068 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Walbridge Park
[Coordinates: 41.6143835, -83.5824823 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Walbridge Park--Observation Deck
Coordinates: 41.6119535, -83.5865164 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Island View Park
Coordinates: 41.6013879, -83.5730195 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Maumee River--Grand Rapids
Coordinates: 41.4138956, -83.8699722 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Orleans Park
Coordinates: 41.5596557, -83.6444092 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Otsego Park
Coordinates: 41.4453803, -83.7857383 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Mary Jane Thurston SP--Grand Rapids Tow Path Trail
Coordinates: 41.4120691, -83.8741833 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Van Tassel Wildlife Area
Coordinates: 41.429214, -83.821077 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Veterans Memorial Park, Rossford
Coordinates: 41.616084, -83.5649192 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About the Maumee River
The Maumee River begins its 137-mile northeastward journey in Fort Wayne, Ind., at the confluence of the St. Joseph and St. Marys rivers and empties into Maumee Bay (Lake Erie) in Toledo. Covering over 6,500 square miles (4.2 million acres), its watershed is the largest drainage basin in the Great Lakes Watershed.

More than 3,900 miles of rivers and streams flow into the Maumee, including the Auglaize, Blanchard (via the Auglaize) and Tiffin rivers. The upper 43 miles of the Maumee River in Ohio is designated as a State Scenic River.

Historically, the Maumee River was also known as the Miami River and called “Miami of the Lake,” not to be confused with the Miami River in southern Ohio, which was known as “Miami of the Ohio.” The word ‘Maumee’ is an anglicized spelling of the Ottawa name for the Miami Indians, ‘maamii.’

The Maumee River provided a strategic backdrop during the Northwest Indian War in the decisive Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. Many forts, including Defiance, Loramie, and Recovery were established to protect trade routes along the river.

The now abandoned Miami and Erie Canal once paralleled the Maumee River between Toledo and Defiance. The canal was completed in 1845 and provided a direct connection for freight traffic between Lake Erie and the Ohio River in Cincinnati. Growing railroad networks in Ohio gradually rendered the canal systems obsolete.

In 1913 the Miami and Erie, as well as the Ohio and Erie Canal in eastern Ohio, were destroyed due to catastrophic flooding. Many remnant segments of the canal exist today and many are located on public lands for recreational use. Stretches of the canal’s towpath have been converted into hiking trails.

The Maumee River is used as a major transportation corridor for commercial freight entering and leaving the Port of Toledo. Due to concerns that too much industrial and wastewater contaminants had been discharged into the lower portion of the river, the Maumee was federally designated an Area of Concern in 1985 (along with the Ashtabula, Black, and Cuyahoga rivers), prompting the foundation of the Maumee River Remedial Action Plan (RAP). The RAP uses community-based, collaborative, ecosystem-based approaches to cleanup and restore the polluted portions of the river. As a result of the RAP’s efforts, water quality in the lower Maumee is improving.

In the upper reaches, upstream of the city of Maumee, the river is shallower and used primarily for recreational purposes. The Maumee is a popular spot to fish for flathead catfish, walleye, smallmouth bass and white bass. Each spring, thousands of walleye run up the Maumee to spawn, attracting anglers from across the nation. From Maumee River webpage

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