Wheeling Creek (West Virginia)
| Wheeling Creek | |
 Wheeling Creek in Wheeling in 2006
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| Country | United States |
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| State | West Virginia |
| Counties | Marshall, Ohio |
| Source | Enlow Fork |
| - location | boundary of Greene and Washington Counties, Pennsylvania |
| - elevation | 1,339 ft (408 m) |
| - coordinates | 40°00′08″N 80°20′27″W / 40.00222°N 80.34083°W |
| Secondary source | Dunkard Fork |
| - location | Confluence of North Fork and South Fork, Richhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania |
| - elevation | 927 ft (283 m) |
| - coordinates | 39°53′33″N 80°28′41″W / 39.89250°N 80.47806°W |
| Source confluence | |
| - location | northeastern Marshall County near Majorsville, West Virginia |
| - elevation | 829 ft (253 m) |
| - coordinates | 39°57′15″N 80°31′43″W / 39.95417°N 80.52861°W |
| Mouth | Ohio River |
| - location | Wheeling, West Virginia |
| - elevation | 630 ft (192 m) |
| - coordinates | 40°03′50″N 80°43′30″W / 40.06389°N 80.72500°WCoordinates: 40°03′50″N 80°43′30″W / 40.06389°N 80.72500°W |
| Length | 25 mi (40 km) |
| Basin | 300 sq mi (777 km2) approx. |
| Discharge | for Elm Grove, Wheeling |
| - average | 343 cu ft/s (9.7 m3/s) |
| - max | 22,300 cu ft/s (631.5 m3/s) |
| - min | 0.1 cu ft/s (0.0 m3/s) |
 A map of Wheeling Creek and its watershed
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Wheeling Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River, 25 miles (40 km) long, in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States, with a watershed extending into southwestern Pennsylvania. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of approximately 300 square miles (780 km2) on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau. It flows into the Ohio River in downtown Wheeling, just downstream of Ohio's Wheeling Creek on the opposite bank. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known as Big Wheeling Creek.
Wheeling Creek is formed in northeastern Marshall County, West Virginia, by the confluence of streams known as the Enlow Fork and the Dunkard Fork:
From the confluence of the Dunkard and Enlow forks, Wheeling Creek flows northwestwardly into the city of Wheeling in Ohio County. In the Elm Grove neighborhood of Wheeling, it collects Little Wheeling Creek, which rises in Ohio County just west of the Pennsylvania state line and flows southwestwardly through the communities of Valley Grove and Triadelphia. In Triadelphia, Little Wheeling Creek collects Middle Wheeling Creek, which rises in West Finley Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and flows generally westwardly into southeastern Ohio County.
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