Wheeling Creek (Ohio)

Wheeling Creek
Wheeling Creek near its mouth in Bridgeport in 2006
Wheeling Creek (Ohio) is located in Ohio
Wheeling Creek (Ohio)
Location of the mouth of Wheeling Creek in Bridgeport, Ohio
Location
CountryUnited States
StateOhio
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationEast of Flushing
 • coordinates40°08′57″N 81°03′00″W / 40.14917°N 81.05000°W / 40.14917; -81.05000[1]
 • elevation1,242 ft (379 m)[2]
MouthOhio 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]
Length30.2 mi (48.6 km)[3]
Basin size108 sq mi (280 km2)[3]
Discharge 
 • locationmouth
 • average123.46 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]

  1. ^ a b Geographic Names Information System. "Geographic Names Information System entry for Wheeling Creek (Feature ID #1083939)". Retrieved 2007-03-18.
  2. ^ a b Google Earth elevation for GNIS coordinates. Retrieved on 2007-06-14.
  3. ^ a b Ohio Department of Natural Resources (August 2001). "Gazetteer of Ohio Streams" (PDF). p. 93. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
  4. ^ United States Environmental Protection Agency. "Watershed Report: Wheeling Creek". WATERS GeoViewer. Archived from the original on 2021-07-05. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  5. ^ a b Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Me.: DeLorme. 1991. pp. 62–63. ISBN 0-89933-233-1.