Wheeling Creek (Ohio)
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| Wheeling Creek | |
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 Wheeling Creek near its mouth in Bridgeport in 2006
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| Country | United States |
| State | Ohio |
| Watershed | 108 sq mi (280 km²) [1] |
| Discharge at | downstream of Blaine |
| - average | 115 cu ft/s (3 m³/s) [2] |
| - maximum | 8,500 cu ft/s (241 m³/s) |
| - minimum | 7 cu ft/s (0 m³/s) |
| Source | |
| - location | East of Flushing |
| - coordinates | [3] |
| - elevation | 1,242 ft (379 m) [4] |
| Mouth | Ohio River |
| - location | Bridgeport |
| - coordinates | [3] |
| - elevation | 623 ft (190 m) [4] |
- For the stream in West Virginia, see Wheeling Creek (West Virginia).
Wheeling Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River in eastern Ohio in the United States. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 108 square miles (280 km²) on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau. It flows for its entire length in Belmont County; its tributaries also drain small areas of southeastern Harrison County and southwestern Jefferson County.[5]
Wheeling Creek rises in Flushing Township just east of the community of Flushing, and flows generally eastwardly through Union, Wheeling, Richland, Colerain, and Pease Townships, past the communities of Lafferty, Bannock, Fairpoint, Maynard, Barton, Blaine, Lansing, and Brookside, to Bridgeport, where it flows into the Ohio River from the west, just upstream of the mouth of West Virginia's Wheeling Creek on the opposite bank. The National Road (U.S. Route 40) parallels the stream between Bridgeport and Blaine.[5]
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[edit] Flow rate
The United States Geological Survey operates a stream gauge on the creek downstream of Blaine, 4.8 miles (7.7 km) upstream of the creek's mouth. Between 1984 and 2005, the annual mean flow of the creek at the gauge was 115 cubic feet per second (3 m³/s). The creek's highest flow during the period was 8,500 ft³/s (241 m³/s) on September 17, 2004. The lowest recorded flow was 7 ft³/s (0 m³/s) on September 21, 1985.[2]
[edit] Variant names
According to the Geographic Names Information System, Wheeling Creek has also been known historically as:[3]
- Indian Wheeling Creek
- Scalp Creek
- Spit Head Creek
- Spithead Creek
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Ohio Department of Natural Resources (1999). Division of Water: Principal streams and their drainage areas. Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
- ^ a b Mangus, J. P.; S. R. Frum. USGS Ohio Water Resources Data, Water Year 2005. Surface-water records, Beaver through Muskingum River Basins (p. 41-77). United States Geological Survey. Retrieved on 2007-06-14.
- ^ a b c Geographic Names Information System. Geographic Names Information System entry for Wheeling Creek (Feature ID #1083939). Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
- ^ a b Google Earth elevation for GNIS coordinates. Retrieved on 2007-06-14.
- ^ a b (1991) Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Me.: DeLorme, pp. 62-63. ISBN 0-89933-233-1.
