Dunes Creek
Dunes Creek is a northeast-flowing 2.9-mile-long (4.7 km)[1] stream which drains Cowles Bog in the remaining portions of the Great Marsh of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in Porter County, Indiana, United States. Dunes Creek passes through the coastal sand dunes to empty into Lake Michigan.
History
In 1837 the town of Fort Creek, the historic name of Dunes Creek, was established at the creek's mouth, ten miles west of Michigan City. The creek was dammed and a sawmill operated there making lumber from the plentiful "large pine trees which grew upon the bluffs".[2]
Watershed and course
The 7,407 acres (2,998 hectares) (2997-hectare) Dunes Creek watershed.[3] In 2012, the terminus of Dunes Creek was daylighted and restored after being buried under a parking lot for 80 years.[4]
Dunes Creek's East Tributary flows northward for 3.4 miles (5.5 km).[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 15, 2011
- ^ Timothy Horton Ball (1900). Northwestern Indiana from 1800 to 1900: Or, A View of Our Region Through the Nineteenth Century. Valparaiso.
- ^ Save the Dunes Conservation Fund (July 6, 2006). "Dunes Creek Watershed Management Plan, Porter County, Indiana" (PDF). Retrieved May 14, 2016.
- ^ Jeff Schultz (June 14, 2012). "State dedicates Dunes Creek restoration project at State Park". Chesterton Tribune. Retrieved May 14, 2016.