Loyalhanna Creek

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Loyalhanna Creek
Loyalhanna Creek in Ligonier Township

Loyalhanna Creek in Ligonier Township

Data
Water code US :  1180049
location Westmoreland County , Pennsylvania ( USA )
River system Mississippi River
Drain over Kiskiminetas  → Allegheny  → Ohio  → Mississippi  → Gulf of Mexico
source near Stahlstown
40 ° 7 ′ 45 ″  N , 79 ° 20 ′ 20 ″  W
Source height approx.  556  m
confluence with the Conemaugh River coordinates: 40 ° 29 ′ 7 ″  N , 79 ° 27 ′ 16 ″  W 40 ° 29 ′ 7 ″  N , 79 ° 27 ′ 16 ″  W.
Mouth height 252  m
Height difference approx. 304 m
Bottom slope approx. 3.8 ‰
length 80 km
Catchment area 774.4 km²
Left tributaries Fourmile Run , Ninemile Run , Monastery Run, Crabtree Creek
Right tributaries Mill Creek , Coalpit Run
Reservoirs flowed through Loyalhanna Lake

The Loyalhanna Creek is a 50 miles long tributary of the Kiskiminetas River in Westmoreland County in the southwest of the US state Pennsylvania .

course

The river has its source near Stahlstown and initially flows northeast to Lingonier . Here he makes an arc to the northwest and takes on Mill Creek . It now breaks through the Chestnut Ridge and flows through the city of Latrobe . The river now enters Loyalhanna Lake National Recreation Area , where it is dammed into Loyalhanna Lake . It leaves the lake again and only a little later forms the Kiskiminetas River at the confluence near Saltsburg with the Conemaugh River.

etymology

The name of the creek is derived from a Lenape village during the 18th century. Layalhanning was at a crossroads of trade routes, where Fort Ligonier was later built, in what is now Ligonier . The Indians left the area around the Susquehanna River in 1727. Layalhanning means on the middle course in Delaware : lawel or lawell (medium); hanna (a river or stream); ing (at the place of).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b USGS National Map Viewer
  2. ↑ Loyalhanna Creek ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  3. ^ Lycoming College Pennsylvania Gazetter of Streams (PDF)
  4. ↑ Chester Hale Sipe: The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania ( English ). Amos Press, 1929, p. 750, OCLC 609345921 .