Buffalo Creek (Illinois)

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Buffalo Creek
Wheeling Drainage Ditch
River
Country United States
State Illinois
City Lake Zurich, Kildeer,
Long Grove, Arlington Heights,
Buffalo Grove, Wheeling
Source
 - location Lake Zurich, Illinois
 - coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Mouth Des Plaines River
 - location Wheeling, Illinois
 - coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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Buffalo Creek is an 11.2-mile-long (18.0 km)[2] tributary of the Des Plaines River. It begins in Lake Zurich, Illinois and flows mainly south-eastward through Kildeer, Long Grove, Buffalo Grove and Wheeling. In Wheeling, it is named Wheeling Drainage Ditch. It joins the Des Plaines River next to Chicago Executive Airport.

GNIS note

The GNIS database information dates from 1980 and does not reflect recent changes made to the mouth location during improvements at Chicago Executive Airport. The source location may also have shifted due to housing development in the area. The coordinates used in the Geobox are from Google Earth.

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Buffalo Creek, USGS GNIS
  2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 13, 2011


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