Salt Creek Little Salt Creek | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Indiana |
Region | Porter County |
Cities | Burns Harbor, Portage, South Haven, Valparaiso |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Porter County, Indiana, United States |
• coordinates | 41°25′21″N 087°01′27″W / 41.42250°N 87.02417°W[1] |
• elevation | 720 ft (220 m) |
Mouth | East Arm Little Calumet River |
• location | Burns Harbor, Porter County, Indiana |
• coordinates | 41°36′41″N 087°09′01″W / 41.61139°N 87.15028°W[1] |
• elevation | 591 ft (180 m)[1] |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Block Ditch, Clark Ditch, Squirrel Creek (Indiana), Robbins Ditch |
• right | Beauty Creek, Pepper Creek (Indiana), Butternut Springs, Damon Run, Gustafson Ditch |
Salt Creek is a 24.0-mile-long (38.6 km)[2] tributary of the East Arm Little Calumet River that begins south of Valparaiso in Porter County, Indiana and flows north until it joins the East Arm Little Calumet River just before it exits to Lake Michigan via the Port of Indiana-Burns Waterway.[1]