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Upper White Watershed

Watersheds: Upper White

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Upper White Watershed
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The Upper White Watershed drains about 1.74 million acres, all in Indiana, and mostly in central Indiana. It drains all of Hamilton County, most of Delaware County, Hendricks County, Madison County, Marion County, and Morgan County, and parts of eleven other counties.

County Boone Brown Clinton Delaware Grant Hamilton Hancock Hendricks Henry Johnson Madison Marion Monroe Morgan Owen Randolph Tipton TOTAL

Acreage 73,019 4,876 1,636 174,831 78 257,580 24,650 142,579 64,133 78,575 273,342 225,492 11,081 216,840 10,468 100,741 80,604 1,740,525

Source: USDA

Notable tributaries of the Upper White River include White Lick Creek, Eagle Creek, Fall Creek, Cicero Creek, Killbuck Creek, and Buck Creek. After joining the Wabash, waters from the White 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 Upper White Watershed an 8-Digit Hydrologic Unit Code of 05120201.