Dead River
The Dead River flows through Marquette County on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and enters Lake Superior at Presque Isle on the north side of Marquette. The river drains forested uplands, small lakes, and impoundments west and northwest of the city before descending a short valley to the lakeshore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Michigan, United States
- Also known as: “Kah way komi gong nay aw shay Sibi”, “Riviere au Paresseux”, and “Riviere Des Morts”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Presque Isle Power Plant and Presque Isle Park.
Presque Isle Power Plant
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The Presque Isle Power Plant was a coal power plant located at Marquette, Michigan, on the shore of Lake Superior. The plant has 5 inactive generating units with a total net generating capacity of 431 Megawatts.
Presque Isle Park
Park
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Presque Isle Park is a 323-acre public park located in Marquette, Michigan, United States. The park is northwest of Marquette itself on an oval-shaped peninsula reaching out into Lake Superior, called the 'Island' locally.
Superior Dome
Sports venue
The Superior Dome is a domed stadium on the campus of Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan, United States. It opened as the "world’s largest wooden dome" on September 14, 1991, and is home to the Northern Michigan Wildcats football, women's lacrosse, and women's track and field teams, the NMU Wildcat marching band, and hosts a variety of other campus and community events.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marquette and Trowbridge Park.
Marquette
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Marquette is the county seat of Marquette County and the largest city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States. Located on the shores of Lake Superior, Marquette is a major port known primarily for shipping iron ore from the Marquette Iron Range.
Trowbridge Park
Village
Trowbridge Park is an unincorporated community in Marquette Township, Marquette County, in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place for statistical purposes and has no legal status as an incorporated municipality. Trowbridge Park is situated 2½ miles southwest of Dead River.
Harvey
Village
Harvey is a census-designated place in Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,244 as of the 2020 census, up from 1,393 in 2010, before the CDP was enlarged by the Census Bureau. Harvey is situated 6 miles south of Dead River.
Dead River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Marquette, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Dead River” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Dead”
- Cebuano: “Dead River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Dead”
- Venetian: “Dead”
- Welsh: “Afon Dead”
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Localities in the Area
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