Patoka River
The Patoka River is a 167-mile-long tributary of the Wabash River in southwestern Indiana in the United States. It drains a largely rural area of forested bottomland and agricultural lands among the hills north of Evansville.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sarah Ewart, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in the United States of America
- Also known as: “Bacon Creek”, “Pataka River”, “Petoka River”, and “Potoka River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wabash County Courthouse and Mount Carmel High School.
Wabash County Courthouse
Courthouse
The Wabash County Courthouse is a historic governmental building in downtown Mount Carmel, Illinois, United States. Built in the late nineteenth century as the fifth courthouse in Wabash County, it has experienced a series of extensive remodelling projects that have left it with virtually nothing of the original building.
Mount Carmel High School
School
Mount Carmel High School is a public high school in Mt. Carmel, Illinois. It is a part of Wabash Community Unit School District 348. It is the only high school in Wabash County, Illinois, which is in southern Illinois, just across the Wabash River from Gibson and Knox Counties of Indiana.
Gibson Generating Station
Power station
Photo: Rhatsa26X, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Gibson Generating Station is a coal-burning power plant located at the northernmost end of Montgomery Township, Gibson County, Indiana, United States. Gibson Generating Station is situated 2½ miles southwest of Patoka River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Mount Carmel and Mount Carmel.
East Mount Carmel
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Flook, CC BY-SA 4.0.
East Mount Carmel is a small unincorporated community near the southwestern corner of White River Township in Gibson County, Indiana. The community is home to around 50 people.
Mount Carmel
Town
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Mount Carmel is a city in and the county seat of Wabash County, Illinois, United States. At the time of the 2020 census, the population was 7,015, and it is the largest city in the county.
Skelton
Hamlet
Skelton is a ghost town community in Montgomery Township, Gibson County, Indiana. The town would be completely inside the grounds of the Gibson Generating Station if it existed still. Skelton is situated 4½ miles southwest of Patoka River.
Patoka River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Gibson, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Patoka River” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Patoka”
- Chinese: “帕託卡河”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر باتوكا”
- German: “Patoka River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Patoka”
- Venetian: “Patoka”
- Welsh: “Afon Patoka”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Maucks Pond and Patoka Island.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Patoka River”. Photo: Sarah Ewart, CC BY-SA 3.0.