Light # | Name | Location | Miles Below Pittsburg | |
BLACKFORD CREEK | Left bank | 738.0 | ||
County line, Hancock-Daviess. | ||||
BIG SANDY CREEK | Right Bank | 738.0 | ||
187. | GRAND VIEW LIGHT. Color White | Right Bank | 738.1 | |
GRANDVIEW, Spencer Co., Ind. (735)
Electric line to Evansville and intermediate points. |
Right Bank | 738.2 | ||
HONEY CREEK | Right Bank | 740.9 | ||
186. | HONEY CREEK LIGHT. Color White | Right Bank | 741.2 | |
Channel follows right bank closely to Rockport, Ind, Least water on bar about 3.6 feet. | ||||
ROCKPORT, County seat of Spencer Co., Ind (2,736)
Electric line to Grandview and Evansville. Ferry to Kentucky shore. Railroad: Southern. |
Right Bank | 742.7 | ||
Channel makes out toward Kentucky shore, but returns and then makes long crossing toward Light 185. | ||||
MUDDY GUT CREEK | Left bank | 744.0 | ||
ICELAND LANDING, Daviess Co., Ky | Left bank | 744.0 | ||
HEAD OF HALF-WAY BAR, from Indiana shore
Bar about 1.7 miles long. |
Right Bank | 744.3 | ||
185. | PUPPY CREEK LIGHT. Color White | Left bank | 745.3 | |
Curved dike just below, 2,935 feet long. Puppy Creek Bar extends about 2 1/2 miles below this light, but is not often troublesome. Puppy Creek enters the river behind dike. | ||||
184. | PUPPY CREEK DIKE LIGHT. Color White | Right Bank | 746.5 | |
WRIGHT LANDING, Spencer Co., Ind | Right Bank | 746.6 | ||
YELLOW CREEK | Left bank | 747.4 | ||
LITTLE YELLOW BANK ISLAND
About 0.7 mile long, close to Indiana shore. |
Right Bank | 747.5 | ||
183. | YELLOW BANK ISLAND LIGHT No. 1. On island. Color White. | RIGHT OF CHANNEL | 748.2 | |
Channel makes long crossing to Light 182. | ||||
PROPOSED OHIO RIVER DAM No. 46
Site selected, but no work in progress. When completed, lock on right bank; length, 600 feet; width, 110 feet: width of navigable pass, 800 feet. Special care necessary in passing dam while under construction. After completion, note directions and caution as in case of Dam No. 1, p. 25. |
748.5 | |||
BIG YELLOW BANK ISLAND, near Indiana shore
Island about 2.8 miles long. |
RIGHT OF CHANNEL | 749.6 | ||
182. | YELLOW BANK ISLAND LIGHT No. 2. Color White | Left bank | 749.9 | |
GLENMORE DISTILLING CO., Daviess Co., Ky | Left bank | 750.7 | ||
OWENSBORO (16,011), upper end, foot of Pearl St
County seat of Daviess Co., Ky. Interests: Manufacturing, coal mining, |
Left bank | 751.5 | ||
GRIFFITH ELEVATOR CO. ELEVATOR | Left bank | 751.9 | ||