Little River (Indiana)

The Little River is a 22.6-mile-long (36.4 km)[1] stream in Allen and Huntington counties in northeastern Indiana.

The river drains an area of 287.9 square miles (746 km2).

[2] 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.

Its source is located approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of the Ardmore Knolls neighborhood of Fort Wayne, at 41°1′13″N 85°12′4″W / 41.02028°N 85.20111°W / 41.02028; -85.20111 (source), and its mouth is located in Huntington at 40°52′35″N 85°31′51″W / 40.87639°N 85.53083°W / 40.87639; -85.53083 (mouth),[3] at a park known as the Forks of the Wabash.

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