The Tiffin River is a 54.9-mile-long (88.4 km)[1] tributary of the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio in the United States.[2] Headwater tributaries of the river rise in southeastern Michigan. The river drains a primarily rural farming region in the watershed of Lake Erie. Early French traders called the river Crique Féve, translated as Bean Creek, due to the natural growth of bean plants along the shores.[3]
The stream was renamed officially as the Tiffin River in 1822 after Edward Tiffin, the first governor of the state of Ohio.[3] The 56.3-mile-long (90.6 km)[1] upper section of the river north of the Ohio Turnpike is still referred to as Bean Creek.[4]
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 19, 2011
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tiffin River
- ^ a b Slocum, Charles Elihu (1905-01-01). History of the Maumee River Basin from the Earliest Account to Its Organization Into Counties. Bowen & Slocum.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bean Creek; the U.S. Board on Geographic Names settled on the two names for the river in decisions in 1962 and 1963.