Loramie Creek

Loramie Creek is a 40.0-mile-long (64.4 km)[1] tributary of the Great Miami River in western Ohio in the United States. Via the Great Miami and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 265 square miles (690 km2).[2] According to the Geographic Names Information System, the stream has also been known historically as "Laramie Creek," "Loramie Ditch," "Loramies Creek," and "Lonamie Creek."[3] It is named after Louis Lorimier, a French-Canadian fur trader who had a trading post in the area in the 18th century.[4]

Loramie Creek rises in northern Shelby County and initially flows southwestwardly, passing through a dam which causes the creek to form Lake Loramie, along which a state park is located. Near Fort Loramie the creek turns southeastwardly, flowing through Lockington Dam (a dry dam) and past the community of Lockington. It flows into the Great Miami River in northern Miami County, about 1 mile (2 km) north of Piqua.[5]

At its mouth, the estimated mean annual discharge of the creek is 239.94 cubic feet per second (6.794 m3/s), according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.[6] A USGS stream gauge on the creek at Lockington recorded a mean annual discharge of 229.3 cubic feet per second (6.49 m3/s) during water years 1921–2019. The highest daily mean discharge during that period was 6,570 cu ft/s (186 m3/s) on July 10, 2003. The lowest daily mean discharge was 0.4 cu ft/s (0.011 m3/s) on September 26, 2002.[7]

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Ohio Department of Natural Resources. A Guide to Ohio Streams. Archived 2005-09-04 at the Wayback Machine Chapter 10: Major Ohio Watersheds (pdf)
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Loramie Creek
  4. ^ History of Shelby County, Ohio: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Sutton. 1883. p. 88.
  5. ^ DeLorme (1991). Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-233-1
  6. ^ United States Environmental Protection Agency. "Watershed Report: Loramie Creek". WATERS GeoViewer. Archived from the original on 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
  7. ^ "USGS Water-Year Summary for Site 03262000". waterdata.usgs.gov. Archived from the original on 2020-07-23. Retrieved 2020-07-23.