Quemahoning Creek
| Quemahoning Creek | ||
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| Data | ||
| Water code | US : 1184548 | |
| location | Somerset County , Pennsylvania ( USA ) | |
| River system | Mississippi River | |
| Drain over | Stonycreek → Conemaugh → Kiskiminetas → Allegheny → Ohio → Mississippi → Gulf of Mexico | |
| source | small lake at Zimmerman 40 ° 3 ′ 18 ″ N , 79 ° 6 ′ 45 ″ W |
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| Source height | 653 m | |
| muzzle | south of Benson in the Stonycreek River Coordinates: 40 ° 11 ′ 53 ″ N , 78 ° 56 ′ 6 ″ W 40 ° 11 ′ 53 ″ N , 78 ° 56 ′ 6 ″ W |
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| Mouth height | 469 m | |
| Height difference | 184 m | |
| Bottom slope | 6.4 ‰ | |
| length | 28.9 km | |
| Catchment area | 254.3 km² | |
| Left tributaries | North Branch Quemahoning Creek | |
| Right tributaries | Hoffman Run, Higgins Run | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Quemahoning Reservoir | |
The Quemahoning Creek is an approximately 29 km long tributary of the Stonycreek River in Somerset County in the southwest of the US state Pennsylvania . It drains an area of 254 square kilometers on the eastern side of Laurel Hill .
course
The river has its source just above Zimmerman . The spring does not always have water, so that it usually rises from a small lake below Zimmerman.
Initially, it usually flows in a north-easterly direction, passing through the Quecreek and Acosta . At Coal Junction it takes up the North Branch Quemahoning Creek , which carries water from the Lake Gloria reservoir with it. Shortly afterwards, between Jenner and Boswell , he takes on the water of the reservoir Stoughton Lake . The river now makes an arc to the southeast and is dammed in the Quemahoning Reservoir . It leaves the reservoir in the northeast and flows two more kilometers from the left into the Stonycreek River .
Individual evidence
- ↑ USGS National Map Viewer
- ↑ Quemahoning Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- ↑ Quemahoning Creek description with pictures (PDF)
- ^ Lycoming College Pennsylvania Gazetter of Streams (PDF)