Download coordinates as: The Saline Branch, or Saline Branch Ditch, is a tributary of the Vermilion River in east central Illinois.

[2] It drains a parcel of east-central Champaign County, including most of the city of Urbana, Illinois and the University of Illinois campus within Urbana.

[3] Extensive engineering work from the late 1800s through the early 1900s, completed in 1908, straightened and ditched the once-wandering creek.

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) states an alternate name for this stream is West Branch Salt Fork.

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