Sevenmile Creek (Ohio)

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Sevenmile Creek is a stream in Preble County and Butler County, Ohio, in the United States. [1] Sevenmile Creek is a tributary of Great Miami River. Beasley Run and Four Mile Creek (Ohio) is a tributary of the creek.

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Sevenmile Creek was named for its distance, seven miles (11 km), from Fort Hamilton. [2] Sevenmile Creek experienced major flooding during the Great Dayton Flood of 1913. [3]

It is spanned by the Roberts Covered Bridge and other bridges.

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Flow rate

At its mouth, the creek's estimated mean annual discharge is 143.2 cubic feet per second (4.05 m3/s). [5] A USGS stream gauge on the creek at Sevenmile recorded a mean annual discharge of 160.2 cu ft/s (4.54 m3/s) during water years 1916–1920. [6]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sevenmile Creek (Ohio)
  2. Lowry, Robert Eaton (1915). History of Preble County, Ohio: Her People, Industries and Institutions. B.F. Bowen. p. 124.
  3. Jones, Richard (March 29, 2013). "Flood ravaged some small towns, left others alone". Journal-News. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  4. Coordinates derived visually from Acme Maps topographical map. Position of origin on GNIS appears to be incorrect: 39°30′00″N84°35′25″W / 39.5000554°N 84.5902264°W
  5. United States Environmental Protection Agency. "Watershed Report: Sevenmile Creek". watersgeo.epa.gov. Archived from the original on 2020-08-26. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
  6. "USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics for Ohio: USGS 03273000 Sevenmile Creek at Sevenmile OH". waterdata.usgs.gov. Archived from the original on 2020-08-26. Retrieved 2020-08-26.