Ottawa River (Lake Erie)
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This is about the river near Lake Erie. For other uses, see Ottawa River (disambiguation)
The Ottawa River is a short river, approximately 15 mi (24 km) long, in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan in the United States. It drains an area on the Ohio-Michigan border along the eastern and northern fringes of the city of Toledo, emptying directly into Lake Erie. It is one of two rivers in northwestern Ohio that share the same name, along with Ottawa River that is a tributary of the Auglaize River. The upper 4 mi (6 km) of the river in Michigan north of Sylvania, Ohio is sometimes called North Tenmile Creek.
It rises in extreme southeastern Michigan, southwest of Ottawa Lake, approximately 3 mi (5 km) north of the Ohio-Michigan state line. It flows south across the state line to Sylvania, approximately 5 mi (8 km) northwest of Toledo, then flows southeast into western Toledo, where it turns aburptly northeast. For its lower 5 mi (8 km) it flows along the north side of Toledo roughly parallel to the Maumee River separated from it by approximately 2 mi (3 km). It crosses the Michigan state line for its lower 1 mi (1.6 km), entering Little Maumee Bay on Lake Erie.