Little Menominee River Little Menominee River The Little Menominee River is a tributary of the Upper Mississippi River, which it joins in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. The Little Menominee rises in Grant County, Wisconsin. It flows south, to the east of the Menominee River, into Illinois. It crosses the northwestern corner of Illinois for about six miles before joining the Mississippi at the southern end of East Dubuque. The town of Menominee, Illinois is located on the river. The name "Menominee" refers to the Menominee, a Native American people. The name means "good seed" or "wild rice". The river is part of the
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