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  2. Watersheds of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Watersheds of Illinois is a list of basins or catchment areas into which the State of Illinois can be divided based on the place to which water flows.. At the simplest level, in pre-settlement times, Illinois had two watersheds: the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, with almost the entire State draining to the Mississippi, except for a small area within a few miles of the Lake.

  3. Lick Creek (Sangamon River tributary) - Wikipedia

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    This 340-acre (1.4 km 2) riparian zone was designated as the Lick Creek Wildlife Preserve by its owner, the Springfield, Illinois-based City Water, Light & Power, in 1991. According to Sangamon County, the watershed protection zone contains a notable grove of mixed sugar maples and chinkapin oaks. One chinkapin, located in Camp Widjiwagan, has ...

  4. List of rivers of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Watersheds of Illinois This page was last edited on 2 January 2025, at 03:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  5. Salt Creek (Des Plaines River tributary) - Wikipedia

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    Flood control dams were constructed along the creek in 1978 within the Ned Brown Forest Preserve near Elk Grove Village, Illinois, creating the 590-acre (2.4 km 2) Busse Lake. A diversion tunnel was constructed approximately 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of the confluence with the Des Plaines River, at a point where the two streams are separated by ...

  6. Embarras River (Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Embarras River highlighted within the Wabash River watershed. The Embarras River rises in Champaign County.The upper reaches of the Embarras include the detention ponds near the intersection of Windsor Road with U.S. Route 45 in southeastern Champaign; the southern portion of the University of Illinois campus, including the small creek near the Vet Med Building; and Meadowbrook Park ...

  7. Saline River (Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    The Saline River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 27 miles (43 km) long, [3] in the Southern Illinois region of the U.S. state of Illinois. The river drains a large section of southeast Illinois, with a drainage basin of 1,762 square miles (4,564 km 2). The major tributaries include the South Fork, Middle Fork and North Fork, all ...

  8. Spoon River - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the Spoon River watershed. The Spoon River is a 147-mile-long (237 km) [2] tributary of the Illinois River in west-central Illinois in the United States.The river drains largely agricultural prairie country between Peoria and Galesburg.

  9. Middle Fork Vermilion River - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Fork of the Vermilion River is a tributary of the Vermilion River (Wabash River) in Illinois. The Middle Fork rises in Ford County and flows southeast to join the Vermilion near Danville. [2] In its natural state, the Middle Fork drained a large upland marsh in what is now Ford County.