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
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[1]
• elevation	1,242 ft (379 m)[2]
Mouth	Ohio River
• location	Bridgeport
• coordinates	40°04′17″N 80°44′17″W[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 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]

Flow rate

At its mouth, the estimated mean annual flow volume of Wheeling Creek is 123.46 cubic feet per second (3.496 m³/s).[4] The United States Geological Survey operates a stream gauge on the creek downstream of Blaine, 4.8 miles (7.7 km) upstream of the creek's mouth. Between 1984 and 2005, the annual mean flow of the creek at the gauge was 115 cubic feet per second (3 m³/s). The creek's highest flow during the period was 8,500 ft³/s (241 m³/s) on September 17, 2004. The lowest recorded flow was 7 ft³/s (0.2 m³/s) on September 21, 1985.[6]

Variant names

According to the Geographic Names Information System, Wheeling Creek has also been known historically as:[1]

• Indian Wheeling Creek
• Scalp Creek
• Spit Head Creek
• Spithead Creek

See also

• List of rivers of Ohio
• Blaine Hill "S" Bridge

References

External links

• USGS Real-Time Water Data for Wheeling Creek below Blaine

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