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Grand River

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Grand River
1. former name of the Colorado River above its junction with the Green River in SE Utah.
2. a river in SW Michigan, flowing W to Lake Michigan. 260 mi. (420 km) long.

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▪ river, Iowa and Missouri, United States
      river rising near Creston, Union county, south-central Iowa, U.S., and flowing in a southerly direction into Missouri. It merges with the Thompson River and Shoal, Medicine, and Locust creeks near Chillicothe, Mo., before joining the Missouri River near Brunswick after a course of 215 miles (346 km). As early as 1723 the Grand was referred to by the French as “La Grande Riviére,” and in that year France established Fort D'Orleans just west of its mouth in an effort to secure military control of the Missouri. The fort was abandoned in 1728, and the site has since been obliterated by the changing course of the river.

      river formed by the confluence of the North and South forks in Perkins county, northern South Dakota, U.S. The Grand River flows southeast and a little south to join the Missouri River near Mobridge after a course of 209 miles (336 km). Shadehill Dam (1950) impounds a reservoir in the Grand's upper course.

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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