[3] Its headwaters are a series of ditches that drain the old Rice Lake bed near Grant for agricultural purposes.

[3] The Blythefield Country Club is now situated on a bluff just northeast of where the Rogue flows into the Grand.

[4] As a frontier waterway, the historic Rogue River was of major importance to local tribes and traders.

During the lumber era in the latter 19th century its waters floated timber to the mills of the Grand River valley, and the riverboat Algoma plied its way northward along Rogue giving its name to the Kent county township of Algoma.

[3] It is popular with trout fishers and local youth who have floated the river by innertube since the mid-20th century.