Kinzua Creek
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| Kinzua Creek | |
| Stream | |
 Kinzua Creek in the Allegheny National Forest near the Allegheny Reservoir
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| Name origin: Kentschuak, Delaware for "they gobble" [1] | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | McKean |
| Source | |
| - location | Cyclone, McKean County, Pennsylvania |
| - elevation | 2,220 ft (677 m) [2] |
| - coordinates | 41°50′8″N 78°35′13″W / 41.83556°N 78.58694°W [3] |
| Mouth | Lake Erie |
| - location | Allegheny Reservoir, McKean County, Pennsylvania |
| - elevation | 1,328 ft (405 m) [2] |
| - coordinates | 41°51′29″N 78°57′13″W / 41.85806°N 78.95361°W [3] |
| Length | 26.5 mi (43 km) [2] |
| Basin | 86 sq mi (223 km2) [2] |
  Location of the mouth of Kinzua Creek in Pennsylvania
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Kinzua Creek (
/ˈkɪnzuː/) is a 26.5-mile (42.6 km) tributary of the Allegheny River in McKean County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
The upper reaches of the creek pass through Kinzua Bridge State Park, where the creek was spanned by the Kinzua Viaduct until a tornado destroyed the viaduct in 2003.
Kinzua Creek (Native American for "turkey") joins the Allegheny Reservoir 10 miles (16 km) upstream of the city of Warren, a few miles upstream of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River. The location is also the former location of Kinzua, an unincorporated community that was wiped out as a result of the construction of the Kinzua Dam.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Heckewelder, John; Peter S. Du Ponceau (1834). "Names Which the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians, Who Once Inhabited This Country, Had Given to Rivers, Streams, Places, &c. &c...". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (American Philosophical Society) 4: 364.
- ^ a b c d Shaw, L. C.; W. F. Busch (June 1984). Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams, Part II. Water Resources Bulletin. 16. Prepared in Cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Department of Forest and Waters. p. 259.
- ^ a b "Kinzua Creek". Geographic Names Information System. August 2, 1979. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1209733. Retrieved Januauary 30, 2009.
- Gertler, Edward (2004). Keystone Canoeing. Silver Spring, MD: Seneca Press. ISBN 0974969206.
[edit] External links
- U.S. Geological Survey: PA stream gaging stations
- Kinzua Bridge State Park
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Kinzua Dam and Allegheny Reservoir
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