Symmes Creek
Symmes Creek | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Ohio |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Bloomfield Township, Jackson County |
• coordinates | 38°59′38″N 82°33′00″W / 38.99389°N 82.55000°W[1] |
• elevation | 740 ft (230 m)[2] |
Mouth | Ohio River |
• location | Chesapeake |
• coordinates | 38°25′38″N 82°26′58″W / 38.42722°N 82.44944°W[1] |
• elevation | 518 ft (158 m)[1] |
Length | 76 mi (122 km)[3] |
Basin size | 357 sq mi (920 km2)[2] |
Discharge | |
• location | Aid[4] |
• average | 426 cu ft/s (12.1 m3/s)[4] |
• minimum | 1 cu ft/s (0.028 m3/s) |
• maximum | 7,100 cu ft/s (200 m3/s) |
Symmes Creek is a 76.4-mile-long (123.0 km)[3] tributary of the Ohio River in southern Ohio in the United States. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 357 square miles (920 km2) on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.
Symmes Creek rises in
Aid, and Willow Wood. It joins the Ohio River at the village of Chesapeake, opposite downtown Huntington, West Virginia.[5]
The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Symmes Creek" as the stream's name in 1902. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as "Simms," "Big Creek," and "Symms Creek."[1]
Flow rate
At the
m³/s). The highest recorded flow during the period was 7,100 ft³/s (201 m³/s) on May 19, 2001. The lowest recorded flow was 1 ft³/s (0 m³/s) on September 18, 2001.[4]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Geographic Names Information System. "Geographic Names Information System entry for Symmes Creek (Feature ID #1077020)". Retrieved 2010-07-04.
- ^ a b Ohio Department of Natural Resources (August 2001). "Gazetteer of Ohio Streams" (PDF). p. 59. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-15. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 26, 2011
- ^ a b c Mangus, J. P.; S. R. Frum (2005). "Surface-water records, Hocking River through Symmes Creek Basins" (PDF). USGS Ohio Water Resources Data, Water Year 2005. United States Geological Survey. p. 31. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
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