Saw Mill Run

Saw Mill Run
Tributary to Ohio River
Seldom Seen Arch
The Seldom Seen Arch, built in 1903, over Saw Mill Run along Saw Mill Run Boulevard not far from Woodruff Street in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Map of Saw Mill Run mouth location
Map of Saw Mill Run mouth location
Location of Saw Mill Run mouth
Map of Saw Mill Run mouth location
Map of Saw Mill Run mouth location
Saw Mill Run (the United States)
Location
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountyAllegheny County
CityPittsburgh
Borough/TownshipCastle Shannon
Mt. Lebanon
Physical characteristics
SourceMcLaughlin Run divide
 • locationMt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania
 • coordinates40°21′14″N 080°02′24″W / 40.35389°N 80.04000°W / 40.35389; -80.04000[1]
 • elevation1,250 ft (380 m)[2]
MouthOhio River
 • location
Saw Mill Run Boulevard and Carson Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 • coordinates
40°26′41″N 080°01′39″W / 40.44472°N 80.02750°W / 40.44472; -80.02750[1]
 • elevation
710 ft (220 m)[3]
Length9.12 mi (14.68 km)[4]
Basin size19.42 square miles (50.3 km2)[5]
Discharge 
 • locationOhio River
 • average19.57 cu ft/s (0.554 m3/s) at mouth with Ohio River[5]
Basin features
Progressionnortheast then northwest[4]
River systemOhio River
Tributaries 
 • leftunnamed tributaries
 • rightunnamed tributaries
BridgesSanta Fe Drive, Caswell Drive, Milford Drive (x2), Connor Road, Willow Avenue, Canal Street, Castle Shannon Boulevard, Killarney Drive, PA 88, Kingwood Street, PA 51 (x2), Whited Street, PA 51, Fawn Street, Fine Way. PA 51, Edgebrook Avenue, PA 51 (x2), Crane Avenue, I-376, Miniotte Square, Neptune Street, S Main Street, PA 51

Saw Mill Run is a tributary of the Ohio River in Pennsylvania. It is an urban stream, and lies entirely within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The stream enters the Ohio just downstream from the Forks of the Ohio in Pittsburgh, at a place that was founded as the town of Temperanceville in the 1830s. It provides an entry through the elevated plateau south of Pittsburgh known as the South Hills, and land transportation has paralleled the stream since the nineteenth century.

The stream is named for an actual saw mill that operated near the mouth of the stream where it empties into the Ohio River. The first reference to the mill is in relation to the construction of Fort Pitt (1759–1761). The mill provided much of the lumber used in the construction of the new Fort, after the British claimed the area from the French and destroyed Fort Duquesne.[6]

  1. ^ a b "GNIS Detail - Sawmill Run". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Get Maps". USGS Topoview. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Get Maps". USGS Topoview. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  4. ^ a b "ArcGIS Web Application". epa.maps.arcgis.com. US EPA. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Sawmill Run Watershed Report". US EPA Geoviewer. US EPA. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  6. ^ Lorant, Stefan (1999). Pittsburgh: The story of an American city (5th ed.). Esselmont Books. ISBN 0967410304. OCLC 42704989.