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Beaucoup Creek; Little Muddy River; Casey Creek (Casey Fork) Marys River. Little Marys River; Kaskaskia River. Shoal Creek; West Okaw River; Palmer Creek; Wood River; Illinois River. Macoupin Creek; Big Sandy Creek; La Moine River; Sangamon River. Salt Creek; Spring Creek; Sugar Creek. Lick Creek; Spoon River; Mackinaw River. Little Mackinaw ...
Salt Creek is a major tributary to the Sangamon River, which it joins at the boundary between Mason and Menard County, Illinois. [2] There are at least two other Salt Creeks in Illinois, Salt Creek (Des Plaines River Tributary), and in Effingham County, Illinois. Salt Creek is about 110 miles (180 km) in length. [3]
The Big Bureau Creek is a 73-mile-long (117 km) [1] tributary of the Illinois River in north central Illinois. [2] It rises approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of Mendota and flows southwest into Bureau County , turning south at Princeton and then flowing east into the Illinois River floodplain.
Parts of the creek were modified and straightened during the 1960s and 1970s. [4] 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 ...
Shoal Creek is a watercourse in the U.S. state of Illinois. It rises near Harvel, Illinois and, flowing southward through Lake Lou Yaeger, discharges into the Kaskaskia River near Okawville. It drains parts of Montgomery County, Bond County, and Clinton County. [2] Shoal Creek is named for the many shoals and sandbars strewn along its
Shoal Creek (Illinois) Sinsinawa River; Skillet Fork; Skokie River; Somonauk Creek; South Branch Kishwaukee River; Spoon River; Spring Creek (Macon County, Illinois) Spring Creek (Sangamon County, Illinois) Stevens Creek (Illinois) Stillman Creek (Illinois) Sugar Creek (Sangamon River tributary) Sugar River (Wisconsin)
A bridge over Rock Creek northeast of Manteno, Illinois, as flood water recedes in April 2006. Rock Creek is a 24.7-mile-long (39.8 km) [1] tributary of the Kankakee River in the U.S. state of Illinois. [2] It empties into the Kankakee River in Kankakee River State Park, northwest of Kankakee, Illinois. It starts in higher land and then drops ...
Thorn Creek is a 20.8-mile-long (33.5 km) [2] tributary of the Little Calumet River that travels through Will and Cook counties in northeastern Illinois just south of Chicago. [1] It starts in the high land of the Valparaiso Moraine before dropping 200 feet (60 m) to the lower elevations of the Little Calumet River valley.