Wheeling Creek (Ohio)

A canalised section of Wheeling Creek near its mouth in Bridgeport in Ohio

Template: Infobox River / Obsolete

The Wheeling Creek is a right tributary of the Ohio River in the eastern U.S. state of Ohio. The outflow is via the Ohio River and Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico. The Wheeling Creek is part of the river system of the Mississippi River and drains an area of 280 km ². The river rises 1km east of the village of Flushing in Belmont County, then flows generally eastward to its mouth in Bridgeport in the Ohio River, which forms the border with the U.S. state of West Virginia here. A few kilometers downstream ends of the same name Wheeling Creek from West Virginia from the opposite side of the Ohio.

Geographic Names Information System According to the the river in its settlement history with Indian Wheeling Creek, Scalp Creek, Spithead Creek and similar spellings was called.

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