Wheeling Creek (Ohio)

Geobox River
name = Wheeling Creek
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image_size = 300
image_caption = Wheeling Creek near its mouth in Bridgeport in 2006
country = United States
state = Ohio
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watershed_imperial = 108
watershed_note = [cite web |url=http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/water/watersheds/Basins72PDI_40x40_OnScreen.gif|title=Division of Water: Principal streams and their drainage areas |author= Ohio Department of Natural Resources |year=1999 |accessdate=2007-03-17]
discharge_location = downstream of Blaine
discharge_imperial = 115
discharge_note = cite web |url=http://pubs.usgs.gov/wdr/2005/wdr-oh-05/ |pages = [http://pubs.usgs.gov/wdr/2005/wdr-oh-05/pdf/vol_1/OHwy05vol1_Pt2.pdf Surface-water records, Beaver through Muskingum River Basins (p. 41-77)] |title=USGS Ohio Water Resources Data, Water Year 2005. |first= J. P. |last=Mangus |coauthors=S. R. Frum |publisher=United States Geological Survey |accessdate=2007-06-14]
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discharge_min_imperial = 7
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source_location = East of Flushing
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source_lat_d = 40
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source_long_d = 81
source_long_m = 03
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source_long_EW = W
source_coordinates_note = cite web |url=Gnis3|1083939 |title=Geographic Names Information System entry for Wheeling Creek (Feature ID #1083939) |author=Geographic Names Information System |authorlink=Geographic Names Information System|accessdate=2007-03-18]
source_elevation_imperial = 1242
source_elevation_note = Google Earth elevation for GNIS coordinates. Retrieved on 2007-06-14.]
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mouth_name = Ohio River
mouth_location = Bridgeport
mouth_lat_d = 40
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:"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.cite book| title= Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer |year=1991 |publisher= DeLorme |location=Yarmouth, Me. |isbn= 0-89933-233-1 |pages= pp. 62-63]

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.

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.

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

ee also

*List of rivers in Ohio

References

External links

* [http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?03111548 USGS Real-Time Water Data for Wheeling Creek below Blaine]