Galena River (Illinois) Galena River (Illinois) The Galena River, also known as the Fevre or Fever River, is a river which flows through the Midwestern United States. The river rises in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, south of Benton and southwest of Shullsburg. It enters Illinois in Jo Daviess County to flow through the city of Galena before it joins the upper Mississippi River a few miles south and west. The river is part of the Driftless Area of Illinois and Wisconsin. This region was ice-free during the Wisconsin glaciation and underwent hundreds of thousands of years of glacial-free erosion. The river also occupies a
Muddy River (Washington) rapidly, passing under Forest Road 25 and then receiving Clear Creek from the left about from the mouth. At the road crossing, Muddy Creek Picnic Site is on the left. Below the confluence with Clear Creek, the river meanders through Cedar Flats, leaves the national forest slightly more than a mile from the mouth, and passes a United States Geological Survey (USGS) stream gauge, on the left from the mouth. Muddy River enters the Lewis River about from the larger stream's mouth on the Columbia River. The USGS monitors the flow of Muddy River at a station upstream of the