Sugar Creek is an 82.4-mile-long (132.6 km)[1] tributary of the Driftwood River in east-central Indiana in the United States. Via the Driftwood, White, Wabash and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Sugar Creek was likely so named from the sugar trees growing along its banks.[2]
Course
Sugar Creek rises in western Henry County and flows generally southwestwardly through Madison, Hancock, Shelby and Johnson counties, past the towns of Spring Lake and New Palestine. It joins the Big Blue River to form the Driftwood River in southeastern Johnson County, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Edinburgh.
Sugar Creek has a mean annual discharge of 532 cubic feet per second near Edinburgh, Indiana.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 19, 2011
- ↑ Branigin, Elba L. (1913). History of Johnson County, Indiana. B. F. Bowen & Company. p. 36.
- ↑ "USGS Current Conditions for USGS 03362500 SUGAR CREEK NEAR EDINBURGH, IN".
- Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
- DeLorme (1998). Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-211-0.
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sugar Creek
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