Greenville Creek

Greenville Creek
Greenville Falls
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Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationNear Spartanburg, Indiana
 • elevation~ 1,155 ft (352 m)[1]
Mouth 
 • location
Stillwater River near Covington, Ohio
 • elevation
~ 875 ft (267 m)[2]
Basin size200 sq mi (520 km2)[3]
Discharge 
 • locationnear Bradford
 • average192 cu ft/s (5.4 m3/s), USGS water years 1931-2019

Greenville Creek is a 44.4-mile-long (71.5 km)[4] tributary of the Stillwater River in southwestern Ohio in the United States. Via the Stillwater River, the Great Miami River, and the Ohio River, its water flows to the Mississippi River and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico. The creek starts in extreme eastern Indiana in Randolph County. It soon flows into Darke County, Ohio, and joins with a tributary that also starts in Indiana, Dismal Creek. It flows through Greenville and Gettysburg before entering Miami County. Near its confluence with the Stillwater River at Covington it drops 20 feet (6.1 m) at Greenville Falls in a glacially-cut gorge that is a state nature preserve.[5]

A USGS stream gauge on the creek near Bradford recorded a mean annual discharge of 192.8 cubic feet per second (5.46 m3/s) during water years 1931–2019. The highest daily mean discharge during that period was 7,920 cu ft/s (224 m3/s) on May 14, 1933. The lowest daily mean discharge was 5.3 cu ft/s (0.15 m3/s) on September 17, 1963.[6]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. Spartanburg quadrangle, Indiana. 1:24,000. 7.5 Minute Series. Washington D.C.: USGS, 1983.
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. Pleasant Hill quadrangle, Ohio. 1:24,000. 7.5 Minute Series. Washington D.C.: USGS, 1983.
  3. ^ "Map of Ohio watersheds". Archived from the original on 2007-03-11.
  4. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 19, 2011
  5. ^ "Greenville Falls Nature Preserve". Archived from the original on 2006-12-09. Retrieved 2006-12-26.
  6. ^ "USGS Water-Year Summary for Site 03264000". waterdata.usgs.gov. Archived from the original on 2020-07-23. Retrieved 2020-07-23.