Mill Creek (Ohio River, Cincinnati)

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Mill Creek
Mill Creek north of Cincinnati

Mill Creek north of Cincinnati

Data
Water code US :  1063435
location southwestern Ohio (USA)
River system Mississippi River
Drain over Ohio River  → Mississippi River  → Gulf of Mexico
origin Fairfield Township in Butler County, OH
39 ° 23 ′ 43 "  N , 84 ° 27 ′ 43"  W
Source height 241  m
muzzle Ohio River, west of downtown Cincinnati, district coordinates: 39 ° 6 ′ 2 ″  N , 84 ° 32 ′ 30 ″  W, 39 ° 6 ′ 2 ″  N , 84 ° 32 ′ 30 ″  W
Mouth height 138  m
Height difference 103 m
Bottom slope 1.6 ‰
length 66 km
Catchment area 425 km²
Left tributaries East Fork Mill Creek
Right tributaries West Fork Mill Creek
Big cities Cincinnati

The Mill Creek ( English for "Mühlbach") is a 45 km long right tributary of the Ohio River in the southern US state of Ohio .

He drained an area of 425 square kilometers and is part of the river system of the Mississippi River . It drains into the Gulf of Mexico via the Ohio River and Mississippi River .

The Mill Creek rises in the Fairfield Township in Butler County , about seven kilometers east of the city of Hamilton . It flows in a generally south-southwest direction through Counties Butler and Hamilton and joins the Ohio River west of downtown Cincinnati . Its main tributaries are the 15 miles long West Fork Mill Creek and the 7 miles long East Fork Mill Creek . Most of the catchment area is in the Metropolitan Area of ​​Cincinnati.

According to the Geographic Names Information System , the river has also been called Bloody Run, Hill Creek, and Mah-pet-e-wa throughout its history .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Google Earth altitude for GNIS coordinates, accessed on August 19, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b c Gazetteer of Ohio Streams. ( Memento of October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.8 MB), accessed on August 19, 2010
  3. ↑ West Fork Mill Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
  4. ^ East Fork Mill Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
  5. ↑ a b Mill Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed 19 August 2010