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Total area is 36,419.55 square miles (94,326.2 km 2), making Indiana the 38th largest in size out of the 50 states. [1]Lake Michigan is the largest body of water wholly or partially within the state borders.
PPhysiography of the Valparaiso Moraine. Valparaiso Moraine at Mink Lake, north of Valparaiso, Indiana. The Valparaiso Moraine is a recessional moraine (a landform left by receding glaciers) that forms an immense U around the southern Lake Michigan basin in North America. It is a band of hilly terrain composed of glacial till and sand.
Salt Creek is a 24.0-mile-long (38.6 km) [2] tributary of the East Arm Little Calumet River that begins south of Valparaiso in Porter County, Indiana and flows north until it joins the East Arm Little Calumet River just before it exits to Lake Michigan via the Port of Indiana-Burns Waterway. [1] Map of Salt Creek Watershed
This is a list of lakes in the U.S. state of Indiana. The lakes are ordered by their unique names (i.e. Lake Indiana or Indiana Lake would both be listed under "I"). Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Map of the 92 counties of the State of Indiana
The lake formed from the melting glaciers north of the Valparaiso Moraine. Eventually the lake overflowed a low spot on the moraine at the Chicago Outlet near the southwest suburbs. This lowered the lake level to current day Lake Michigan levels (Horsley, 1986). [10] As the lake shrunk, it left a series of sand ridges where its ancient beaches ...
It is 8 miles (13 km) north of Hebron, the same distance southwest of Valparaiso, the Porter county seat, and 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Gary. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the Lake Eliza CDP has an area of 0.54 square miles (1.40 km 2 ), of which 0.48 square miles (1.24 km 2 ) are land and 0.07 square miles (0.18 km 2 ), or 12.52% ...
The location of the state of Indiana in the United States of America An enlargeable map of the state of Indiana An enlargeable map of the 92 counties of the state of Indiana. Indigenous peoples. Evidence of human activity date as early 8000 BC. Hopewell culture developed agriculture and begins Indiana's first permanent settlements. 200 BC-400 AD
Indiana's code is 18, which when combined with any county code would be written as 18XXX. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county. [5] In Indiana, the most commonly seen number associated with counties is the state county code, which is a sequential number based on the alphabetical order of the county.