the Ohio River Valley
Posted by nathan on 16 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: random.
Growing up, i always thought we (DeKalb County, Indiana) were living in the Ohio River Valley. (that means, our streams empty into creeks which empty into rivers which flow into the Ohio River)
I know i’ve heard it on the news from Fort Wayne. Here is a map of the Ohio River Valley: 
But it turns out, we aren’t in the Ohio River Valley at all!
Cedar Creek empties into the Saint Joe just north of Fort Wayne. The Saint Joe meets up with the Saint Mary’s River just off downtown (just south of the water treatment plant), and forms the Maumee River.
The Maumee empties into Lake Erie!
So it turns out, we are in the Maumee River Valley…
did you know that? did you ever think we were part of the Ohio River Valley?
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on 17 Apr 2007 at 9:31 am 1.
Jeff Noble said …
Nathan -
I came upon your blog by accident. I do live in the Ohio Valley, as we call it down here (always omitting the word “river” from the description). Like yours, my blog is based on place. It is called “Ohio River, Left Bank, at Milepost 606.” Milepost 606 is where the Ohio is bordered on the north by Jeffersonville and Clarksville, Indiana, the original starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and on the south (or left bank) by Louisville, Kentucky, my home town.
As you are near to Fort Wayne, you are certainly close to the edge of the Ohio Valley. The Wabash River has as one of its sources a stream which rises along the Noble and Allen county line on the west side of Allen County. As it empties into the Wabash and into the Ohio, most of that area is in fact in the Ohio Valley. But, only a very small three or four acres in the extreme southwestern corner your county fall into the Wabash, and thus Ohio valley watershed.
But, if you want to be an Ohio Valley resident, then we’ll let you. We’re pretty accomodating.
Jeff Noble
Louisville