Four Mile Creek (Ohio)

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Four Mile Creek is a stream in Preble County and Butler County, Ohio, in the United States. [1]

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Four Mile Creek was named from its distance, 4 miles (6.4 km) from Fort Hamilton. [2]

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At its mouth, the creek's estimated mean annual discharge is 333.8 cubic feet per second (9.45 m3/s). [4] A USGS stream gauge on the creek near Hamilton recorded a mean annual discharge of 301.1 cu ft/s (8.53 m3/s) during water years 1938-1960. [5]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Four Mile Creek
  2. Lowry, Robert Eaton (1915). History of Preble County, Ohio: Her People, Industries and Institutions. B.F. Bowen. p. 124.
  3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Four Mile Creek (Ohio)
  4. United States Environmental Protection Agency. "Watershed Report: Four Mile Creek". watersgeo.epa.gov. Archived from the original on 2020-08-26. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
  5. "USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics for Ohio: USGS 03273500 Fourmile Creek near Hamilton OH". waterdata.usgs.gov. Archived from the original on 2020-08-26. Retrieved 2020-08-26.