Indian River (Delaware) - Definition and Overview

The Indian River is a river and estuary, approximately 15 mi (24 km) long, in Sussex County in southern Delaware in the United States.

It rises approximately 2 mi (3 km) southwest of Georgetown and flows east, past Millsboro, its head of navigation. It enters Indian River Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Henlopen. The lower 6 mi (10 km) of the river form a navigable tidal estuary stretching westward from Indian River Bay, which is protected from the open ocean by two sand bar peninsulas.

See also

• List of Delaware rivers

External links

• Univ. of Maryland: Indian River ecology (http://www.hpl.umces.edu/ecohab/site_indianriver.htm)
• History of Millsboro, Delaware: founding on the Indian River (http://www.millsboro.org/HistoryofMillsboro.html)