Salt Creek

tributary to the Sangamon River, which it joins at the boundary between Mason and Menard County, Illinois, USA
Place river Q16984317
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Salt Creek

Summary

Salt Creek is a river[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of river entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Salt Creek is located in Mason County[3].
  • Salt Creek is located in Menard County[4].
  • Salt Creek is located in Logan County[5].
  • Salt Creek is located in DeWitt County[6].
  • Salt Creek is located in McLean County[7].
  • Salt Creek is in the country of United States[8].
  • Salt Creek's instance of is recorded as river[9].
  • Salt Creek's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 18329372[10].
  • Salt Creek's mouth of the watercourse is recorded as Sangamon River[11].
  • Salt Creek's lake on watercourse is recorded as Clinton Lake[12].
  • Salt Creek's GNIS Feature ID is recorded as 426594[13].
  • Salt Creek's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 40.1258791, 'longitude': -89.8256661, 'precision': 0.011748359706504}[14].
  • Salt Creek's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 40.4214229, 'longitude': -88.5667283, 'precision': 1e-07}[15].
  • Salt Creek's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cplgk[16].
  • Salt Creek's tributary is recorded as North Fork Salt Creek[17].
  • Salt Creek's tributary is recorded as Kickapoo Creek[18].
  • Salt Creek's tributary is recorded as Sugar Creek[19].
  • Salt Creek's GeoNames ID is recorded as 4910451[20].
  • Salt Creek's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 1134438[21].
  • Salt Creek's length is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q828224', 'amount': '+180'}[22].
  • Salt Creek's drainage basin is recorded as Sangamon River drainage basin[23].
  • Salt Creek's impounded by is recorded as Clinton Lake Dam[24].
  • Salt Creek's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["River", "SaltCreek::4bhqn"][25].
  • Salt Creek's Yale LUX ID is recorded as place/4da35f36-ec3f-4aaf-9fe3-59f299079049[26].

Body

Geography

Salt Creek is in the country of United States[8]. Located in include Mason County[3], a county of Illinois[27], in United States[28], founded in 1841[29]; Menard County[4], a county of Illinois[30], in United States[31], founded in 1839[32]; Logan County[5], a county of Illinois[33], in United States[34], founded in 1839[35]; DeWitt County[6], a county of Illinois[36], in United States[37], founded in 1839[38]; and McLean County[7], a county of Illinois[39], in United States[40], founded in 1830[41].

Physical Characteristics

Salt Creek's length is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q828224', 'amount': '+180'}[22].

Designation and Status

Salt Creek's instance of is recorded as river[9].

Why It Matters

Salt Creek ranks in the top 2% of river entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [8] . wikidata.org.
  2. [9] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . The National Map. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . The National Map. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . The National Map. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . The National Map. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . The National Map. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . The National Map. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  14. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  15. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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