Eel River (Wabash River tributary)

For the smaller Eel River in southwestern Indiana, see Eel River (White River).
Eel River
L'Anguille River, Kenapocomoco,[1] Shoxamèkw Sipu[2]
Collamer Dam
Eel River (Wabash River tributary) is located in Indiana
Eel River (Wabash River tributary)
Native nameKineepikwameekwa Siipiiwi (Miami-Illinois)
Location
CountryUnited States
StateIndiana
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationHuntertown, Indiana
MouthWabash River
 • location
Logansport, Indiana
Discharge 
 • locationmouth
 • average848.48 cu ft/s (24.026 m3/s) (estimate)[3]

The Eel River is a 94-mile-long (151 km)[4] tributary of the Wabash River in northern Indiana in the United States. Via the Wabash and Ohio rivers, its waters flow to the Mississippi River and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico. The Eel River rises southeast of Huntertown in Allen County and flows southwest through Allen, Whitley, Kosciusko, Wabash, Miami, and Cass counties to join the Wabash at Logansport. The river was called Kineepikwameekwa Siipiiwi - "river of the snake fish" by the Miami people, who inhabited the area at the time of European contact, the English rendered it as Ke-na-po-co-mo-co. It is the northern of the two rivers named Eel River within Indiana.

  1. ^ "The Indians Called It Kenapocomoco". Lenape Talking Dictionary. 1991. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  2. ^ "Eel River (Indiana)". Lenape Talking Dictionary. 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  3. ^ United States Environmental Protection Agency. "Watershed Report: Eel River". WATERS GeoViewer. Archived from the original on 2021-07-17. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
  4. ^ 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