Salt Creek (Little Calumet River tributary)

Salt Creek
Little Salt Creek
Salt Creek looking upstream from Route 6 Bridge, just east of SR 149, near South Haven, Indiana.
Map
Location
CountryUnited States
StateIndiana
RegionPorter County
CitiesBurns Harbor, Portage, South Haven, Valparaiso
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationPorter County, Indiana, United States
 • coordinates41°25′21″N 087°01′27″W / 41.42250°N 87.02417°W / 41.42250; -87.02417[1]
 • elevation720 ft (220 m)
MouthEast 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 / 41.61139; -87.15028[1]
 • elevation
591 ft (180 m)[1]
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • leftBlock Ditch, Clark Ditch, Squirrel Creek (Indiana), Robbins Ditch
 • rightBeauty 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]

Map of Salt Creek Watershed
  1. ^ a b c d U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Salt Creek
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 19, 2011