Located in northeastern

Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...

, the Oconto River is a

tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...

Lake Michigan Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume () and the third-largest by surface area (), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. To the east, its basin is conjoined with that o ...

via Green Bay. The Oconto River is long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
accessed December 19, 2011 stretching from the confluence of its North and South branches at

Suring, Wisconsin Suring is a village in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States, along the 45th parallel. The population was 544 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area. History This area lies within the traditional homel ...

, to Green Bay at the city of Oconto. Its

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...

covers , encompassing most of Oconto County as well as portions of Shawano, Marinette,

Menominee The Menominee (; mez, omǣqnomenēwak meaning ''"Menominee People"'', also spelled Menomini, derived from the Ojibwe language word for "Wild Rice People"; known as ''Mamaceqtaw'', "the people", in the Menominee language) are a federally recog ...

, Langlade, and

Forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...

counties.

Images

File:OcontoRiverWIS22OcontoFalls.jpg, Oconto River in Oconto Falls File:OcontoRiverLateWinterPulcifer.jpg, Oconto River in Pulcifer during late winter

References

Tributaries of Lake Michigan Rivers of Wisconsin Rivers of Oconto County, Wisconsin Rivers of Shawano County, Wisconsin Rivers of Marinette County, Wisconsin Rivers of Menominee County, Wisconsin Rivers of Langlade County, Wisconsin Rivers of Forest County, Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-river-stub