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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Indiana. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Several dye trace studies have shown that the drainage basin of Harrison Spring is, by Indiana standards, very large. Indian Creek is a major infeeder to the Harrison Springs drainage system as the entire summer flow of Indian Creek can disappear at the Sinks of Indian Creek and re-emerge at Harrison Springs in low-flow conditions, in about one hour.
Created in 1837, the Indiana Geological and Water Survey (IGWS) is an official agency of the U.S. state of Indiana charged with geological research and the dissemination of information about the state's energy, mineral and water resources. [1] In 2017, the Indiana Geological Survey was renamed to the Indiana Geological and Water Survey. [2]
The Watersheds of Indiana consist of six distinct Indiana watershed regions that drain into five major bodies of water. In the above map, The largest area, shaded in green, drains into the Wabash River .
The lake is the largest entirely situated in Indiana with 10,750 acres (43.5 km 2) of water surface area spread over the counties of Monroe and Brown. Capacity varies from 292 gigalitres (237,000 acre⋅ft) to 428 gigalitres (347,000 acre⋅ft) [ 2 ] depending on water level.
Clear Creek flows roughly in the west-south-westerly direction across the campus of Indiana University, passing in front of its major landmark, the Indiana Memorial Union. On campus, the creek was formerly known as the Jordan River , named so after David Starr Jordan , the seventh president of Indiana University and later the first president of ...
According to USA Today, the Indiana basketball team has failed to make the playoffs from 2017 to 2023, making it the longest current drought in the WNBA. The team also tied with the Chicago Sky ...
St. Joseph River near Newville in DeKalb County, Indiana. Floodwall along St. Joseph River in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The St. Joseph River (Miami-Illinois: Kociihsasiipi) [1] is an 86.1-mile-long (138.6 km) [2] tributary of the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio and northeastern Indiana in the United States, with headwater tributaries rising in southern Michigan.