| Silver River | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Main source | Keweenaw County, Michigan |
| River mouth | Lake Superior |
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The Silver River is a 3.2-mile-long (5.1 km) [1] stream near the northern tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. It rises out of a marsh around Bailey Pond at 47°26′16″N88°03′08″W / 47.43778°N 88.05222°W and flows mostly northward into Lake Superior at 47°28′05″N88°04′26″W / 47.46806°N 88.07389°W . [2]
The Keweenaw Peninsula is the northernmost part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It projects into Lake Superior and was the site of the first copper boom in the United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was roughly 43,200. Its major industries are now logging and tourism, as well as jobs related to Michigan Technological University and Finlandia University.
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are currently 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory and shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Due to this shared sovereignty, Americans are citizens both of the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons restricted by certain types of court orders. Four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States. The state's name, Michigan, originates from the Ojibwe word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". With a population of about 10 million, Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area, and is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies.
