What is "salt creek"

Salt Creek is a stream in northeastern Illinois. It is an important tributary of the Des Plaines River, part of the Illinois River and ultimately the Mississippi River watersheds. It rises in northwest Cook County at Wilke Marsh in Palatine and flows in a meandering course generally southward through DuPage County, returning to central Cook County and emptying into the Des Plaines River in Riverside, Illinois. Most of the creek's watershed is urbanized, densely populated and flood-prone.

Dams were constructed along the creek in 1978 within the Ned Brown Forest Preserve near Elk Grove Village, Illinois, creating the Busse Lake. A diversion tunnel was constructed approximately north of the confluence with the Des Plaines River, at a point where the two streams are separated by only .

Tributary streams include Addison Creek. The Graue Mill historic gristmill stands on the bank of the creek in Oak Brook.

It was originally known to European settlers as the Little Des Plaines River but was given the name Salt Creek in the mid-nineteenth century after a large wagonload of salt spilled in the waterway. Some of the species of fish in the creek include carp, smallmouth bass and northern pike and bluegill/sunfish minnow/shad and bullhead catfish are in this creek

Salt Creek is a major tributary to the Sangamon River, which it joins at the boundary between Mason and Menard County, Illinois. There are at least two other Salt Creeks in Illinois, Salt Creek (Des Plaines River Tributary), and in Effingham County, Illinois.

Salt Creek is about in length. From its headwaters near Saybrook, Illinois, it runs generally westward to the main stem of the Sangamon near Greenview.

The largest lake formed by Salt Creek is Clinton Lake near Clinton, which provides cooling water for the Clinton Nuclear Generating Station.

The lower reaches of Salt Creek at one time formed the boundary between Mason and Menard counties. This stretch has been channelized so that the modern route of the creek only approximates the actual county line.

The major tributaries of Salt Creek include Sugar Creek, Kickapoo Creek, and the North Fork of Salt Creek.

Salt Creek may refer to:

• Salt Creek (Amargosa River), California
• Salt Creek (Orange County), California
• Salt Creek (Des Plaines River tributary), Illinois
• Salt Creek (Little Wabash River tributary), Illinois
• Salt Creek (Sangamon River tributary), Illinois
• Salt Creek (Little Calumet River), Indiana
• Salt Creek (White River), Indiana
• Salt Creek (Muskingum County, Ohio)
• Salt Creek (Middle Fork Willamette River), Oregon
• Salt Creek (Platte River), Nebraska
• Salt Creek (Juab County), Utah

• Salt Creek, Colorado
• Salt Creek, Oregon
• Salt Creek, South Australia
• Salt Creek, Panama, a village on Bastimentos Island, Panama

• Salt Creek Canyon Massacre
• Salt Creek Oil Field
• Salt Creek pupfish, another name for the Death Valley pupfish
• Salt Creek Township (disambiguation)

Salt Creek is a tributary of the Little Wabash River, which it joins near Edgewood, Illinois, near the boundary between Effingham and Clay counties. There are at least two other "Salt Creeks" in Illinois: Salt Creek (Des Plaines River tributary) and Salt Creek (Sangamon River tributary).

Salt Creek is about in length.

Salt Creek is a intermittent stream in Riverside County, California, flowing into the Salton Sea at Salt Creek Beach on the northern shore. It is an important habitat of desert pupfish, containing a population of 159 fish.

Salt Creek is a 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.

Salt Creek is a tributary of the Platte River, located in Saunders, Cass, and Lancaster counties in southeast Nebraska. It is approximately in length. It connects to the Platte River at Mahoney State Park in Ashland.

Among species found along Salt Creek are the critically endangered Salt Creek tiger beetle, of which fewer than 200 individuals existed in 2009.

Salt Creek is a stream in Juab County, Utah. Its mouth is at an elevation of 5,226 feet / 1,593 meters. Its source is located at , the confluence of the Left Fork and Right Fork of Salt Creek in the Nebo Basin east of Mount Nebo.

Salt Creek is a small coastal stream in southern Orange County in the U.S. state of California. The creek drains in parts of the cities of Laguna Niguel, Dana Point, and San Juan Capistrano. The mostly channelized creek has no named surface tributaries. The creek begins in the central portion of the city of Laguna Niguel and flows west and south through a narrow canyon referred to as the Salt Creek Corridor, which is mostly inside a long and narrow regional park. It then flows into the Monarch Beach Golf Course in the city of Dana Point and enters a subsurface storm channel ("Arroyo Salada Storm Channel") which carries it to its discharge point at Salt Creek County Beach.

Salt Creek is a stream in the southern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. A tributary of the East Fork of the White River, the creek begins in southwestern Bartholomew County, flows through southern parts of Brown and Monroe counties, and meets the White River just downstream from Bedford in Lawrence County. In far southwestern Brown County and much of southern Monroe County, the creek flows through Lake Monroe, which was created by damming the creek in 1965.

A major tributary of Salt Creek is Clear Creek, which drains most of the city of Bloomington. Besides the street runoff from Bloomington, Clear Creek also brings with it the effluent from the city's Dillman Road Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Salt Creek was so named on account of the many brine springs along its course.

Salt Creek is a tributary, long, of the Middle Fork Willamette River in Lane County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is named for salt springs along its banks that are used as licks by deer. The stream originates as an outflow of Lower Betty Lake in the forested Cascade Range just southeast of Waldo Lake. From its source, Salt Creek flows generally south, through Gold Lake, to Route 58, which it then follows mainly northwest for about to its mouth at the Middle Fork Willamette River just below Hills Creek Dam. At Salt Creek Falls—roughly west of Willamette Pass and a little more than upstream from the mouth—the stream plunges , discharging an average of of water per minute, or . Below the falls, the creek enters a narrow canyon shaped by glaciation and basalt lava flows from higher in the Cascades. McCredie Hot Springs, at the former community of McCredie Springs, are natural hot springs along the lower half of Salt Creek beside Route 58.

The Salt Creek watershed is a temperate coniferous forest in which the primary tree species include Douglas fir, western hemlock, and mountain hemlock. Fish species in Salt Creek are primarily trout, especially coastal cutthroat trout, rainbow trout, and non-native brook trout. The brook trout were introduced into lakes in and around the Salt Creek watershed, and many now live in upper Salt Creek. Bull trout formerly inhabited Salt Creek until damage to habitat throughout the Willamette River basin, such as the construction of dams, reduced and eliminated some populations in the Willamette's watershed.

Salt Creek is a stream located entirely within Muskingum County, Ohio.

Salt Creek was so named for the salt production there by pioneer settlers.

Salt Creek or Rio Salitroso is a tributary stream or wash of the Amargosa River, in San Bernardino County, California. It was named Rio Salitroso, on January 16, 1830 by Antonio Armijo whose expedition subsequently followed it up towards the Mojave River, as they established the first route of the Old Spanish Trail.

The mouth of Salt Creek is at its confluence with the Amargosa River at an elevation of 390 feet / 119 meters. Its source is at at an elevation of 890 feet in the north slope of the Soda Mountains northwest of Baker, California. From there it flows down into Silurian Valley to Dry Sand Lake at and then to another named Silurian Lake, flowing northwest, gathering in Kingston Wash from the east, before flowing out of the valley through the Salt Spring Hills to the Amargosa River beyond in Death Valley.

Soda Lake may drain into the Dry Sand Lake in Salt Creek's upper reach through a wash from Silver Lake in extremely rare wet years when both lakes fill and overflow with water from rain or from the Mojave River.