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Little River, Eel River, Tippecanoe River, Vermilion River, Little Vermilion River, Embarras River, Little Wabash River The Wabash River / ˈ w ɔː b æ ʃ / ( French : Ouabache ) is a 503-mile-long (810 km) [ 2 ] river that drains most of the state of Indiana , and a significant part of Illinois , in the United States .
The Wabash River, shown within its drainage basin. The Wabash Valley is a region located in sections of both Illinois and Indiana.It is named for the Wabash River and, as the name is typically used, spans the middle to the middle-lower portion of the river's valley and is centered at Terre Haute, Indiana.
The county is named for the Wabash River, which forms its eastern and southern borders. The name "Wabash" is an English spelling of the French name for the river, "Ouabache."' French traders named the river after the Miami Indian word for the river, "Wabashike," (pronounced "Wah-bah-she-keh"), the word for "pure white." Much of the river bottom ...
Aug. 21—As a popular conservation movement notes, water is life. Human beings and most every other earthly creature can't live without it. Industry needs it, too, and the state of Indiana's ...
Mar. 15—Duke Energy continues efforts to close coal ash ponds, or basins, at its former Wabash River Generating Station along the Wabash River, according to a utility spokeswoman. The work ...
Wildcat Creek is a tributary of the Wabash River in north-central Indiana. The stream is 84 miles (135 km) long [1] and drains an area of 804.2 square miles (2,083 km 2). [2] Wildcat Creek consists of three main forks-North, South, and Middle.
The Tippecanoe River (/ ˌ t ɪ p ə k ə ˈ n uː / TIP-ə-kə-NOO) is a gentle, 182-mile-long (293 km) [1] river in the Central Corn Belt Plains ecoregion in northern Indiana.It flows from Crooked Lake in Noble County to the Wabash River near what is now Battle Ground, about 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Lafayette.
It was a rectangular block lying at right angles to the course of the Wabash River at Vincennes. The tract was ceded by France to Britain by treaty in 1763 after the French and Indian War. On October 18, 1775, an agent for the Wabash Company purchased two tracts of land along the Wabash River from the Piankeshaw tribe called the 'Plankashaw Deed'.