Wheeling Creek (Ohio)

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[1]
• elevation	1,242 ft (379 m)[2]
Mouth	Ohio River
• location	Bridgeport
• coordinates	40°04′17″N 80°44′17″W / 40.07139°N 80.73806°W / 40.07139; -80.73806[1]
• elevation	623 ft (190 m)[2]
Length	30.2 mi (48.6 km)[3]
Basin size	108 sq mi (280 km2)[3]
Discharge
• location	mouth
• average	123.46 cu ft/s (3.496 m3/s) (estimate)[4]

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 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 south-eastern Harrison County and south-western Jefferson County.^[5]

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.^[5]