| Wheeling Creek | |
|---|---|
 Wheeling Creek near its mouth in Bridgeport in 2006 | |
  Location of the mouth of Wheeling Creek in Bridgeport, Ohio | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Ohio |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | East of Flushing |
| • coordinates | 40°08′57″N 81°03′00″W / 40.14917°N 81.05000°W / 40.14917; -81.05000 |
| • elevation | 1,242 ft (379 m) |
| Mouth | Ohio River |
| • location | Bridgeport |
| • coordinates | 40°04′17″N 80°44′17″W / 40.07139°N 80.73806°W / 40.07139; -80.73806 |
| • elevation | 623 ft (190 m) |
| Length | 30.2 mi (48.6 km) |
| Basin size | 108 sq mi (280 km) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | mouth |
| • average | 123.46 cu ft/s (3.496 m/s) (estimate) |
Wheeling Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River, 30.2 miles (48.6 km) long, 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 km) on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau. It flows for its entire length in Belmont County; its tributaries also drain small areas of south-eastern Harrison County and south-western Jefferson County.
Wheeling Creek rises in Flushing Township just east of the community of Flushing, and flows generally east 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.
Flow rate
At its mouth, the estimated mean annual flow volume of Wheeling Creek is 123.46 cubic feet per second (3.496 m/s). 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 (0.2 m³/s) on September 21, 1985.
Variant names
According to the Geographic Names Information System, Wheeling Creek has also been known historically as:
- Indian Wheeling Creek
- Scalp Creek
- Spit Head Creek
- Spithead Creek
See also
References
- ^ Geographic Names Information System. "Geographic Names Information System entry for Wheeling Creek (Feature ID #1083939)". Retrieved 2007-03-18.
- ^ Google Earth elevation for GNIS coordinates. Retrieved on 2007-06-14.
- ^ Ohio Department of Natural Resources (August 2001). "Gazetteer of Ohio Streams" (PDF). p. 93. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
- ^ United States Environmental Protection Agency. "Watershed Report: Wheeling Creek". WATERS GeoViewer. Archived from the original on 2021-07-05. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
- ^ Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Me.: DeLorme. 1991. pp. 62–63. ISBN 0-89933-233-1.
- Mangus, J. P.; S. R. Frum. "USGS Ohio Water Resources Data, Water Year 2005". United States Geological Survey. pp. Surface-water records, Beaver through Muskingum River Basins (p. 41–77). Retrieved 2007-06-14.