Little Pigeon River (Cheboygan County)

The Little Pigeon River is a 10.2-mile-long (16.4 km)[2] stream in Otsego and Cheboygan counties in the U.S. state of Michigan.

This article is about the tributary of the Pigeon River. For the river that flows into Mullet Lake at the same place as the Pigeon River, see Little Pigeon River (Mullett Lake).
Little Pigeon River
Location
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationCorwith Township, Otsego County, Michigan
Mouth 
 • location
Pigeon River, Cheboygan County, Michigan
 • elevation
751 ft (229 m)[1]

The stream rises from the outflow of Mud Lake in northern Corwith Township, Otsego County at 45°11′23″N 84°30′07″W,[1] It flows north and east to empty into the Pigeon River at 45°17′32″N 84°29′08″W[1] in the southeastern corner of Walker Township in Cheboygan County.

Tributaries

From the mouth:

  • (left) MacAndrews Lake[3]
  • (right) Burrows Creek[4]
  • Mud Lake[5]

Protected areas

L. John & Helen Bishop Working Forest Reserve

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Little Pigeon River (Cheboygan County)
  2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed November 21, 2011
  3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: MacAndrews Lake
  4. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Burrows Creek
  5. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mud Lake



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