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- Two rivers form part of Indiana’s boundary. First, the Wabash River forms a state boundary with Illinois. Secondly, the Ohio River carves out a border with Kentucky to the south.
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The river has shifted course several times along the Indiana and Illinois border, creating cutoffs where parts of the river are entirely in either Indiana or Illinois. However, both states generally regard the middle of the river as the state border.
In general, rivers in Indiana flow into the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. Two rivers form part of Indiana’s boundary. First, the Wabash River forms a state boundary with Illinois. Secondly, the Ohio River carves out a border with Kentucky to the south.
River boundaries are typically defined by the "thread of the channel" (the river's thalweg, usually in the approximate middle of the river's channel), under a rule that the United States inherited from England, where it applies to boundaries between counties.
Wabash River, largest southward-flowing tributary of the Ohio River, rising in Grand Lake, western Ohio. It flows generally westward across Indiana past the cities of Huntington, Wabash, Logansport, and Lafayette, then southward to Terre Haute. Just south of that city it forms a 200-mile (320-km)
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Indiana is bordered on the north by Lake Michigan and the state of Michigan; on the east by Ohio; on the south by Kentucky, with which it shares the Ohio River as a border; and on the west by Illinois. Indiana is one of the Great Lakes states.
May 31, 2022 · The Wabash River is an 810km long river streaming southwest from northwest Ohio and flowing across northern Indiana until southern Illinois. The river forms the Illinois-Indiana boundary and then drains into the Ohio River - which is its largest northern tributary.
Indiana is river rich. The entire southern border is the Ohio River (as is part of the eastern border), and more than a third of the western border is the Wabash River. The Ohio River carries much of the commerce in the middle of the country.
