Tippecanoe Watershed

Watersheds: Tippecanoe


Tippecanoe Watershed map

Tippecanoe Watershed
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The Tippecanoe Watershed drains about 1.25 million acres in north central Indiana. The watershed is centered around the Tippecanoe River, which flows from its source at Crooked Lake (which lies in both Noble County and Whitley County) to its confluence with the Wabash River near Battle Ground in Tippecanoe County. The Tippecanoe Watershed drains nearly all of Fulton County, Pulaski County, and White County, a large part of Kosciusko County, and smaller portions of ten other counties. The Tippecanoe River is more biologically diverse than most rivers in the upper midwest, and is particularly notable for the number of freshwater mussel species that live in it.

County
Benton
Carroll
Cass
Fulton
Jasper
Kosciusko
Marshall
Miami
Noble
Pulaski
Starke
Tippecanoe
White
Whitley
TOTAL

Acreage
11,897
11,247
40,292
230,719
15,601
214,742
80,293
14,576
13,698
265,906
33,529
5,391
280,104
28,855
1,246,850

Source: USDA

Notable tributaries of the Tippecanoe River include Grassy Creek, Walnut Creek, Timber Creek, Yellow Creek, Chippewanuck Creek, Mill Creek, Mud Creek, Big Monon Creek, and Moots Creek. After joining the Wabash, waters from the Tippecanoe River make their way to the Ohio River and thence into the Mississippi River and on to the Gulf of Mexico.

The United States Geological Survey has assigned the Tippecanoe Watershed an 8-Digit Hydrologic Unit Code of 05120106.