Spring Creek is a stream in
Macon County, Illinois
Macon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 United States Census, it had a population of 110,768. Its county seat is Decatur.
Macon County comprises the Decatur, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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. A tributary of
Stevens Creek, itself a tributary of the
Sangamon River
The Sangamon River is a principal tributary of the Illinois River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 13, 2011 in central Illinois in the United Stat ...
, Spring Creek originates just northeast of the town of
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before emptying into Stevens Creek west of Horace B. Garman Park in
Decatur, Illinois
Decatur ( ) is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois, with a population of 70,522 as of the 2020 Census. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in ...
.
[http://www.illinoisfloodmaps.org/DFIRMpdf/discovery/uppersangamon/UpperSangamonDiscoveryMap.pdf ]
References
Rivers of Illinois
Rivers of Macon County, Illinois
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