The Little River is a stream in Allen and Huntington counties in northeastern Indiana. A tributary of the Wabash River, it is sometimes called the "Little Wabash", which may cause it to be confused with the Little Wabash River of Illinois. The river drains an area of .

The Little River follows the Wabash-Erie Channel or "sluiceway," a remnant of the Maumee Torrent that drained ancient Glacial Lake Maumee at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation, and joins the Wabash just west of Huntington.

Little River (Indiana)

The Little River is part of the Wabash River Heritage Corridor, created by the Indiana General Assembly in 1991 to commemorate the historic portage that linked the Wabash River watershed with that of Lake Erie.

Little River (Indiana)

Its source is located approximately southwest of the Ardmore Knolls neighborhood of Fort Wayne, at , and its mouth is located in Huntington at , at a park known as the Forks of the Wabash.

Little River (Indiana)

At Huntington, Indiana, the Little River has a mean annual discharge of 256 cubic feet per second.

See also

List of rivers of Indiana

References

External links

National Weather Service: Little River Hydrograph

Little River Wetlands Project

Maumee-Wabash Portage: The Glorious Gate

Indiana Code: Wabash River Heritage Corridor

Wabash River Heritage Corridor Commission

Little River confluence with Wabash River: Topographic Map from TopoQuest

Rivers of Allen County, Indiana

Rivers of Huntington County, Indiana

Rivers of Indiana

Tributaries of the Wabash River