Youghiogheny River
| Youghiogheny River | |
 Ohiopyle Falls along the Youghiogheny
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| Country | United States |
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| States | Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia |
| Counties | Allegheny, PA, Westmoreland, PA, Fayette, PA, Somerset, PA, Garrett, MD, Preston, WV |
| Tributaries | |
| - right | Casselman River |
| Cities | McKeesport, PA, Connellsville, PA |
| Source | |
| - location | Backbone Mountain, Garrett County, Maryland |
| - elevation | 2,700 ft (823 m) |
| - coordinates | 39°15′00″N 79°29′30″W / 39.25000°N 79.49167°W |
| Mouth | Monongahela River |
| - location | McKeesport, Allegheny County, PA |
| - elevation | 724 ft (221 m) |
| - coordinates | 40°21′19″N 79°52′16″W / 40.35528°N 79.87111°WCoordinates: 40°21′19″N 79°52′16″W / 40.35528°N 79.87111°W |
| Length | 132 mi (212 km) |
| Basin | 1,715 sq mi (4,442 km2) |
| Discharge | for Sutersville, PA |
| - average | 3,477 cu ft/s (98 m3/s) |
| - max | 35,500 cu ft/s (1,005 m3/s) |
| - min | 717 cu ft/s (20 m3/s) |
 Map of the Monongahela River basin, with the Youghiogheny River highlighted.
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The Youghiogheny River /jɒkəˈɡeɪni/, or the Yough /ˈjɒk/ for short, is a 134-mile-long (216 km)tributary of the Monongahela River in the U.S. states of West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. It drains an area on the west side of the Allegheny Mountains northward into Pennsylvania, providing a small watershed in extreme western Maryland into the tributaries of the Mississippi River. Youghiogheny is an Algonquin word meaning "a stream flowing in a contrary direction".
The Youghiogheny rises in northern West Virginia, in Preston County southeast of the town of Kingwood and near Backbone Mountain. The headwaters are approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of the headwaters of the North Branch of the Potomac River. It flows north-northeast into Garrett County, Maryland, flowing north past Oakland and roughly parallel to the West Virginia border, separated by approximately 3 miles (5 km). The river enters southwestern Pennsylvania on the border between Fayette and Somerset counties. It flows northwest through a gap in Chestnut Ridge and then past Connellsville. It joins the Monongahela River from the southeast at McKeesport, southeast of Pittsburgh.
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