Big Raccoon Creek

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Big Raccoon Creek
Big Raccoon Creek in the Wabash River basin

Big Raccoon Creek in the Wabash River basin

Data
Water code US :  431052
location Indiana (USA)
River system Mississippi River
Drain over Wabash  → Ohio  → Mississippi  → Gulf of Mexico
source in Boone County,
40 ° 0 ′ 54 "  N , 86 ° 34 ′ 1"  W.
muzzle Wabash River Coordinates: 39 ° 45 ′ 52 "  N , 87 ° 22 ′ 48"  W 39 ° 45 ′ 52 "  N , 87 ° 22 ′ 48"  W.
Mouth height 144  m

length approx. 130 km
Catchment area 1346 km²
Discharge at the Coxville
A Eo gauge : 1160 km² 		MQ 1957/2015
Mq 1957/2015
 		14.6 m³ / s
12.6 l / (s km²)
Right tributaries Little Raccoon Creek
Reservoirs flowed through Cecil M. Harden Lake
Communities Bridgeton, Coxville, Ladoga, Mansfield, Mecca
Mansfield Covered Bridge

Mansfield Covered Bridge

The Big Raccoon Creek (from English: big for "big", raccoon for " raccoon ", creek for "brook" or "smaller river") is a left tributary of the Wabash River in the US state of Indiana . The river is about 130 km long and drains an area of ​​1346 km².

Big Raccoon Creek has its source in Boone County in western central Indiana 10 km west of Lebanon . It flows in the upper reaches in a southwest direction through the counties of Montgomery and Putnam . The village of Ladoga is located on the river. The river will later be dammed in Parke County for purposes of regulating runoff to Cecil M. Harden Lake . The Raccoon State Recreation Area is located on a peninsula by the reservoir . The river passes through the towns of Mansfield and Bridgeton and later turns to the northwest. The Big Raccoon Creek passes the towns of Coxville and Mecca in the lower reaches and finally flows into the Wabash River south of Montezuma . Above Coxville, Little Raccoon Creek joins the river from the right. Big Raccoon Creek is accessible by canoe below Cecil M. Harden Lake .

Historic bridges

Along the river the Big Raccoon Creek are or were located several covered bridges ( covered bridges ):

  • Mecca Covered Bridge (built in 1873, closed in 1964, renewed in 1993)
  • Portland Mills Covered Bridge (built in 1856, relocated to Little Raccoon Creek in 1961 before the Cecil M. Harden Lake was dammed, renovated in 1996)
  • Mansfield Covered Bridge (built in 1867, renewed in 1990)
  • Conley's Ford Covered Bridge (built in 1907)
  • Bridgeton Covered Bridge (replaced by a reconstruction in 2006)
  • Jeffries Ford Covered Bridge (built in 1915, destroyed by fire on April 2, 2002)
  • Roseville Covered Bridge (built in 1910, renewed in 1977)

Other historic bridges on Big Raccoon Creek:

  • Sutherlin Ford Bridge (Truss Bridge, built in 1906)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Big Raccoon Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
  2. ↑ Middle Wabash-Little Vermilion Watershed - 12 Digit HUCs (PDF 870 KB) USDA - NRCS. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ USGS 03341300 BIG RACCOON CREEK AT COXVILLE, IN