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Comment: Please provide latitude and longitude coordinates (you can estimate these based on Google Maps, if there is no GNIS entry). Please see other place articles for examples of how to do this in the editor. Also please fix the bare URLs in the reference list by using template:cite news for your inline citations. Finally, please remove the example.com external link from the bottom, which does nothing. Then we can review the draft. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 21:30, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: Please consider providing the latitude and longitude coordinates of the stream Robert McClenon (talk) 18:09, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
The Isaac Jones Ditch is a channelized stream in Hamilton County, Indiana that is a tributary to Hinkle Creek.
The headwaters of the Isaac Jones Ditch are located in the vicinity of Hortonville. Approximately three miles northeast of where it forms, the Isaac Jones Ditch flows into its main stem, Hinkle Creek. This confluence takes place near Deming.
History
[edit]Before the stream was channelized and renamed to the Isaac Jones Ditch, it was a sluggish body of water named Lick Creek that spanned a quarter of a mile in width for much of its length and covered nearly a square mile in Washington and Jackson Townships. Much of that acreage was a marsh.[1]
Near Lick Creek's junction with Hinkle Creek, there was a saline spring where deer would gather to lick the salt, hence how Lick Creek received its name.[2] Lick Creek was also known as the Dismal Swamp amongst the people who lived near it. This was due to Lick Creek being nearly impassable as a result of the dense tangle of underbrush, briers, vines, and mud that encompassed it. Coupled with the predators that lurked within, Lick Creek was viewed as a dismal place to venture into.
From 1865 to 1866, a ditch was dug to drain the marshes of Lick Creek.[3] However, the ditch overflowed in times of flooding. As such, another attempt was undertaken in 1880. The latter drainage project was more or less a success;[4] by 1885, most of the marshes had been reclaimed as farmland.[5] In the decades that followed, the dredging of existing ditches and the construction of new ones continued to improve the drainage of what was formerly the marshes of Lick Creek.
The aforementioned drainage projects confined most, if not all, the waters of Lick Creek to a channelized stream by about the turn of the 20th century. It was around this time that Lick Creek was renamed to the Isaac Jones Ditch.[6]
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