| Saline Branch Drainage Ditch | |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 40.2664°N -88.1743°W |
| Source1 Coord Ref: | [1] |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 40.1173°N -88.0521°W |
| Mouth Elevation: | 676feet |
| Custom Label: | GNIS ID |
| Tributaries Right: | Boneyard Creek |
The Saline Branch, or Saline Branch Ditch, is a tributary of the Vermilion River in east central Illinois. 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.[2]
Extensive engineering work from the late 1800s through the early 1900s, completed in 1908, straightened and ditched the once-wandering creek. It discharges into the Salt Fork of the Vermilion River; the discharge includes outflow from the Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District. The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) states an alternate name for this stream is West Branch Salt Fork.