Saline Branch

Saline Branch Drainage Ditch
Origin Champaign County, Illinois south of Rantoul, Illinois
40°15′59″N 88°10′28″W / 40.266358°N 88.17433°W / 40.266358; -88.17433 (Saline Branch Drainage Ditch origin)[1]
Mouth Confluence with the Salt Fork Vermilion River west of St. Joseph, Illinois
40°07′02″N 88°03′08″W / 40.1173°N 88.0521°W / 40.1173; -88.0521 (Saline Branch Drainage Ditch mouth)[1]
Progression Saline Branch → Salt Fork → Vermilion → Wabash → Ohio → Mississippi → Gulf of Mexico
Mouth elevation 676 ft (206 m)
GNIS ID 417889

The Saline Branch, or Saline Branch Ditch, is a tributary of the Vermilion River in east central Illinois.[2] It drains a parcel of east-central Champaign County, including most of the city of Urbana, Illinois and the University of Illinois campus within Urbana.[3]

Extensive engineering work from the late 1800s through the early 1900s, completed in 1908, straightened and ditched the once-wandering creek. It discharges into the Salt Fork of the Vermilion River.

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) states an alternate name for this stream is West Branch Salt Fork.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Coordinates derived by sight from USGS National Map. Coordinates not provided by GNIS.
  2. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Saline Branch Drainage Ditch
  3. ↑ Illinois Atlas and Gazetteer. Freeport, Maine: DeLorme Mapping. 1991. ISBN 0-89933-213-7.

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