Broken Sword Creek

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Broken Sword Creek
Data
Water code US :  1038339
location northern state of Ohio (USA)
River system Saint Lawrence River
Drain over Sandusky River  → Niagara River  → Saint Lawrence River  → Atlantic Ocean
origin 10 miles southeast of New Washington in Crawford County, OH
40 ° 53 ′ 18 "  N , 82 ° 45 ′ 20"  W
Source height 337  m
muzzle Sandusky River, 5 km southwest of Nevada in Wyandot County, OH Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′ 10 "  N , 83 ° 10 ′ 56"  W, 40 ° 46 ′ 10 "  N , 83 ° 10 ′ 56"  W
Mouth height 271  m
Height difference 66 m

Catchment area 246 km²
Right tributaries Brandywine Creek

The Broken Sword Creek is a right tributary of the Sandusky River , a tributary of Lake Erie in the northern US state of Ohio . The Broken Sword Creek belongs to the river system of the St. Lawrence River and drains 246 km² of predominantly agricultural land in the catchment area of Lake Erie. It rises about 10 km southeast of the town of New Washington in Crawford County , flows first in a westerly direction and then meandering generally to the southwest through Wyandot County to flow into the Sandusky River 5 km southwest of Nevada.

The main tributary is the Brandywine Creek , which rises at Bucyrus in Crawford County ( 40 ° 51 ′ 52 ″  N , 82 ° 56 ′ 14 ″  W ), flows northwest and flows into Broken Sword Creek in Lykens Township ( 40 ° 53 20 ″  N , 83 ° 1 ′ 27 ″  W ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Google Earth altitude for GNIS coordinates, accessed on July 25, 2010.
  2. ↑ Sandusky River Basin ( Memento of May 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 7.5 MB), accessed on July 25, 2010
  3. ↑ Broken Sword Creek in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed July 25, 2010
  4. ↑ a b Broken Sword Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , Brandywine Creek, accessed July 25, 2010

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