Kaskaskia River
The Kaskaskia River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 325 miles long, in central and southern Illinois in the United States. The second largest river system within Illinois, it drains a rural area of farms, as well as rolling hills along river bottoms of hardwood forests in its lower reaches.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Kaskaskias River”, “Okaw River”, “Rarcon River”, and “skaskias River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site.
Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site
Park
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Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site is a 200-acre park near Chester, Illinois, on a blufftop overlooking the Mississippi River. It commemorates the vanished frontier town of Old Kaskaskia and the support it gave to George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution. Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site is situated 1½ miles east of Kaskaskia River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kaskaskia and Ste. Genevieve.
Kaskaskia
Village
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Kaskaskia is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, on the west side of the Mississippi River. The population of Kaskaskia was 21 in the 2020 United States census, making it the third-least populous incorporated community in Illinois behind Valley City and Florence. Kaskaskia is situated 4 miles south of Kaskaskia River.
Ste. Genevieve
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Ste. Genevieve is a small city in south east Missouri, in the United States of America. Located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, it was founded in 1735.
Kaskaskia River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Randolph, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kaskaskia River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر كاساسكيا”
- Asturian: “Ríu Kaskaskia”
- Bulgarian: “Каскаския (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Каскаския”
- Catalan: “Kaskaskia”
- Catalan: “Riu Kaskaskia”
- Cebuano: “Kaskaskia River”
- Chinese: “卡斯卡斯基亞河”
- Danish: “Kaskaskia River”
- Dutch: “Kaskaskia River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كاسكاسكيا”
- French: “Kaskaskia”
- French: “rivière Kaskaskia”
- Georgian: “კასკასკია”
- German: “Kaskaskia River”
- Hebrew: “קאסקאסקיאה”
- Irish: “Abhainn Kaskaskia”
- Japanese: “カスカスキア川”
- Mingrelian: “კასკასკია”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaskaskia”
- Norwegian: “Kaskaskia River”
- Norwegian: “Kaskaskia”
- Polish: “Kaskaskia River”
- Russian: “Каскаския (река)”
- Russian: “Каскаския”
- Spanish: “Rio Kaskaskia”
- Spanish: “río Kaskaskia”
- Spanish: “Río Kaskaskia”
- Spanish: “río Okaw”
- Spanish: “río Rarcon”
- Spanish: “río Skaskias”
- Venetian: “Kaskaskia”
- Welsh: “Afon Kaskaskia”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kaskaskia Lock and Dam and Kaskaskia River Navigation Pool.
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