Wheeling Creek (Ohio)
| Wheeling Creek | |
|---|---|
Wheeling Creek near its mouth in Bridgeport in 2006 | |
| 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 |
| • elevation | 1,242 ft (379 m) |
| Mouth | Ohio River |
• location | Bridgeport |
• coordinates | 40°04′17″N 80°44′17″W / 40.07139°N 80.73806°W |
• elevation | 623 ft (190 m) |
| Length | 30.2 mi (48.6 km) |
| Basin size | 108 sq mi (280 km2) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | mouth |
| • average | 123.46 cu ft/s (3.496 m3/s) (estimate) |
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.
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.