Big Blue River (Indiana)
The Big Blue River is an 83.8-mile-long (134.9 km)[1] tributary of the Driftwood River in east-central Indiana in the United States. Via the Driftwood, White, Wabash and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Course
The Big Blue rises in northeastern
Sugar Creek to form the Driftwood River 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Edinburgh. At Shelbyville, it collects the Little Blue River
.
At the USGS station at Shelbyville, Indiana, the Big Blue River has an approximate discharge of 513 cubic feet per second.[2]
See also
- List of Indiana rivers
- County Line Bridge (Morristown, Indiana)
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 19, 2011
- ^ "USGS Current Conditions for USGS 03361500 BIG BLUE RIVER AT SHELBYVILLE, IN".
- Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
- ISBN 0-89933-211-0.
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Big Blue River
39°20′49″N 85°59′33″W / 39.346814°N 85.992523°W
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
 | This article related to a river in Indiana is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |