Shell Rock River

The Shell Rock River is a 113-mile-long (182 km)tributary of the Cedar River in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa in the United States. Via the Cedar and Iowa rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

Name

This river was named for the fossil shells found in outcroppings along its banks. The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Shell Rock River" as the stream's name in 1931. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known by the spelling "Shellrock River".

Course

The Shell Rock River flows from Albert Lea Lake in Freeborn County, Minnesota, and soon enters Iowa, flowing generally south-southeastwardly through eastern Worth, northeastern Cerro Gordo, western Floyd, northeastern Butler, southwestern Bremer and northwestern Black Hawk counties, past the town of Glenville in Minnesota and the towns of Northwood, Plymouth, Rock Falls, Nora Springs, Rockford, Marble Rock, Greene, Clarksville and Shell Rock in Iowa. It joins the West Fork of the Cedar River in Black Hawk County, about 6 miles (10 km) north-northwest of Cedar Falls. At Rockford, Iowa, it collects the Winnebago River from the west.

Shell Rock

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Shell Rock, Iowa

Shell Rock is a city in Butler County, Iowa, United States, along the Shell Rock River. The population was 1,296 at the 2010 census. The city is located along the county's eastern border, between Butler and Bremer counties.

Geography

Shell Rock is located at 42°42′40″N 92°35′0″W / 42.71111°N 92.58333°W / 42.71111; -92.58333 (42.711033, -92.583471).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.66 square miles (4.30 km²), of which, 1.56 square miles (4.04 km²) is land and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km²) is water.

Demographics

2010 census

As of the census of 2010, there were 1,296 people, 554 households, and 363 families residing in the city. The population density was 830.8 inhabitants per square mile (320.8/km²). There were 588 housing units at an average density of 376.9 per square mile (145.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.5% White, 0.4% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.3% from other races, and 1.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.2% of the population.

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Rock River (Lake Superior)

The Rock River is a 17.5-mile-long (28.2 km) river in Alger County on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. It flows through the Rock River Canyon Wilderness of Hiawatha National Forest, then turns north and flows to Lake Superior at the village of Rock River.

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Rock River (Mississippi River)

The Rock River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 299 miles (481 km) long, in the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Illinois. The river was known as the Sinnissippi to Sauk and Fox Indians pushed west by white settlement; the name means "rocky waters". It begins just to the west of the village of Brandon in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin and flows east and then south to Horicon Marsh, east of Waupun. It meanders southward to the Illinois border ending about 300 miles later at the Mississippi River at the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa. During its course it passes through Watertown, collects the Crawfish River in Jefferson, and receives the Bark River at Fort Atkinson. In northern Rock County it receives the Yahara River, and flows southward through Janesville and Beloit into northern Illinois, where it receives the Pecatonica River 5 miles (8 km) south of the state line.

It flows south through Rockford, then southwest across northwestern Illinois, picking up the Kishwaukee River, passing Oregon, Dixon, Sterling and Rock Falls before joining the Mississippi at Rock Island. It was on the Rock River in Dixon where Ronald Reagan served as a lifeguard. Reagan's favorite fishing spot, now called "Dutch Landing" after Reagan's nickname, was located just southwest of Lowell Park on the Rock River.