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Broken Sword Creek
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationCrawford County, Ohio
 • coordinates[2]
 • elevation1,140 ft (350 m)[1]
Mouth 
 • location
Sandusky River,
Wyandot County, Ohio
 • elevation
860 ft (260 m)[2]

Broken Sword Creek[3] in Wyandot County and Crawford County, Ohio is a 37.1-mile-long (59.7 km)[4] tributary of the Sandusky River.

Legend states the name is derived from an incident when William Crawford broke his sword at the creek bank in order to render it useless to Indians who were pursuing him.[5]

Tributaries

See also

References

  1. ^ "Broken Sword Creek source from USGS-GNIS". USGS The National Map. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Broken Sword Creek
  3. ^ United States Geological Survey Hydrological Unit Code: 04-10-00-11- Sandusky Watershed
  4. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-04-05 at WebCite, accessed May 19, 2011
  5. ^ Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 19.