Saline Branch
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locationChampaign County, Illinois south of Rantoul, Illinois
location
Confluence with the Salt Fork Vermilion River west of St. Joseph, Illinois| Saline Branch Drainage Ditch | |
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| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Champaign County, Illinois south of Rantoul, Illinois |
| • coordinates | 40°15′59″N 88°10′28″W / 40.266358°N 88.17433°W[1] |
| Mouth | |
• location | Confluence with the Salt Fork Vermilion River west of St. Joseph, Illinois |
• coordinates | 40°07′02″N 88°03′08″W / 40.1173°N 88.0521°W[1] |
• elevation | 676 ft (206 m) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Saline Branch → Salt Fork → Vermilion → Wabash → Ohio → Mississippi → Gulf of Mexico |
| Tributaries | |
| • right | Boneyard Creek |
| GNIS ID | 417889 |
The Saline Branch, or Saline Branch Ditch, is a tributary of the Vermilion River in east central Illinois.[2] It drains a parcel of east-central Champaign County, including most of the city of Urbana, Illinois and the University of Illinois campus within Urbana.[3]
Extensive engineering work from the late 1800s through the early 1900s, completed in 1908, straightened and ditched the once-wandering creek. It discharges into the Salt Fork of the Vermilion River; the discharge includes outflow from the Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District. The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) states an alternate name for this stream is West Branch Salt Fork.[2]
