Boneyard Creek

Boneyard Creek
The Boneyard flows through the UIUC Engineering Campus
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationCity of Champaign, Illinois
 • coordinates40°07′30″N 88°14′16″W / 40.1250317°N 88.2378271°W / 40.1250317; -88.2378271 (Boneyard Creek origin)
Mouth 
 • location
Confluence with the Saline Branch, Urbana, Illinois
 • coordinates
40°07′N 88°12′W / 40.12°N 88.2°W / 40.12; -88.2 (Boneyard Creek mouth)
 • elevation
728 ft (222 m)
Length3.3 mi (5.3 km)
Basin features
ProgressionBoneyard Creek → Saline Branch → Salt Fork → Vermilion → Wabash → Ohio → Mississippi → Gulf of Mexico
GNIS ID422378
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Concrete silhouette by Frank Gallo contemplated the Boneyard Creek in Scott Park until its excision in 2009.[1]
Boneyard encased in sheet piling in Urbana
Boneyard detention basin - Also known as Healey Street Basin
Flood control park at 2nd St. and Springfield Ave.

Boneyard Creek is a 3.3-mile-long (5.3 km)[2] waterway that drains much of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Illinois, United States.[3] It is a tributary of the Saline Branch of the Salt Fork Vermilion River, which is a tributary of the south-flowing Vermilion River and the Wabash River. The creek flows through the northern sections of the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The newsletter of the university's ACM chapter is Banks of the Boneyard, named after the creek.

  1. ^ Wade, Patrick (January 23, 2011). "Artistic Scott Park 'inhabitants' apparently discarded". News-Gazette.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Boneyard Creek