Green Creek (Ohio)

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Green Creek
Physical characteristics
Main source Pleasant Township, Seneca County, Ohio
703 ft (214 m)
41°13′47″N83°04′39″W / 41.2297222°N 83.0775°W / 41.2297222; -83.0775 (Green Creek origin)
River mouth Confluence with Sandusky River at Lake Erie
568 ft (173 m)
41°26′36″N83°00′42″W / 41.4433333°N 83.0116667°W / 41.4433333; -83.0116667 (Green Creek mouth) Coordinates: 41°26′36″N83°00′42″W / 41.4433333°N 83.0116667°W / 41.4433333; -83.0116667 (Green Creek mouth)
Basin features
Progression Green Creek → Sandusky River → Lake Erie → Great Lakes → Saint Lawrence River → Gulf of Saint Lawrence
GNIS ID 1066024
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Green Creek is a 21.6-mile-long (34.8 km) [1] tributary to the Sandusky River in the northern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. It connects Mineral Springs at the village of Green Springs to the Sandusky River. [2]

Sandusky River river in the United States of America

The Sandusky River is a tributary to Lake Erie in north-central Ohio in the United States. It is about 133 miles (214 km) long and flows into Lake Erie at the southwest side of Sandusky Bay.

U.S. state constituent political entity of the United States

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are currently 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory and shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Due to this shared sovereignty, Americans are citizens both of the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons restricted by certain types of court orders. Four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.

Ohio State of the United States of America

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Of the fifty states, it is the 34th largest by area, the seventh most populous, and the tenth most densely populated. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus.

Green Creek was so named on account of the mineral-stained rocks along its course. [3]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-04-05 at WebCite , accessed May 19, 2011
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Green Creek
  3. Meek, Basil (1909). Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio: And Representative Citizens. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company. p. 47.