Tuscarawas River
The Tuscarawas River is one of the two sources of the Muskingum River.
From source to mouth it flows over a length of 209 km through the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. About the Muskingum River and in the further course of the Ohio River flows the water of the stream to the Mississippi, and thus belongs to the basin of the Mississippi.
Course
The source of the Tuscarawas is located southwest of Hartville, Ohio. It first flows in a westerly direction and reached after a few kilometers originating from the last Ice Age Portage Lakes south of Akron and Barberton, Ohio. Until then, the river flows westward rather, from here rather in a southerly direction, among other things named after him by the Tuscarawas County. It happened while the following cities and towns: Clinton, Canal Fulton, Massillon, Navarre, Bolivar, Zoar, Dover and New Philadelphia finally.
In the City of New Philadelphia, the direction of flow bends back at first from the southwest, later westerly direction. Later he crosses other cities and villages of the Tuscarawas County as Gnadenhutten, Port Washington, and finally Newcomerstown. In the last-named city in the southwest of Tuscarawas County, the river enters the adjacent Coshocton County, Ohio, about where it soon merges with the Walhonding River near the town of Coshocton. After confluence is called the river later in the Muskingum River.
From Barberton downstream of the scale 1828-1830 Ohio and Erie Canal ran parallel to the Tuscarawas River. In the 1850's but he lost after the advent of the railroad in importance again. After a flood in 1913, the canal was finally no longer to use as a waterway. Parts of the parallel channel and river running Treidelwegesroute have been preserved and now serve as hiking and biking trails.
Previous names
The Tuscarawas River appeared in U.S. history to not always under its present name. Instead, he wore a number of different names. So he was called in the past a long time as Little Muskingum River, in reference to the later in arising therefrom Muskingum River. Dive addition, for the river is also the following names: Little Mashongam River, Tuscarawa River and Tuskarawas Creek. The present name was taken over by a former Indian village. Whose name Tuscarawas meant as much as the old place and was broadcast by European settlers on the river as well as on the eponymous County and the town of the same name.
Tributaries
The Tuscarawas River is the receiving water following watercourses:
- Chippewa Creek, Estuary near Clinton, Ohio;
- Sandy Creek, Estuary near Bolivar;
- Conotton Creek, south of the mouth of Zoarville, Ohio;
- Sugar Creek estuary at Dover, Ohio;
- Stillwater Creek north of the city of Tuscarawas;
- Nimishillen Creek, a notable tributary of Sandy Creek, drained Canton, Ohio.
Supplementary data
At the measuring point of the United States Geological Survey, near the village Newcomerstown the amount of run-off water in the Tuscarawas River is determined. Between 1922 and 2005 the average amount of water that flows downstream per second, 73 m³ / s
In contrast, the highest ever measured flow rate was 1325 m³ / s This was determined on 26 January 1937.
The lowest ever measured flow rate was in contrast to only 6 m³ / s This was measured on 15 August 1944.
The source of the river is 224 meters higher than the mouth of the Muskingum River. With a length of 209 km, this results in an average gradient of the Tuscarawas River of 0.98 m / km.