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Raccoon Creek State Park is a 7,572-acre (3,064 ha) Pennsylvania state park on Raccoon Creek in Hanover and Independence townships in Beaver County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is about 30 miles (48 km) from the city of Pittsburgh , near Hookstown .
Raccoon Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Raccoon Creek joins the Ohio River in Potter Township . Only a small portion of the creek is located within Raccoon Creek State Park .
Raccoon Creek rises in a pond on the Conneaut Creek divide about 2 miles south of West Springfield, Pennsylvania and then flows northeast and turns north-northwest to join Lake Erie about 6 miles north of West Springfield, Pennsylvania. [1]
Raccoon Creek, a creek near Waynesville, North Carolina; see William Holland Thomas; Raccoon Creek (Ohio), a tributary of the Ohio River near Carbondale in southern Ohio Raccoon Creek Ecological Management Area, located in Zaleski State Forest in southern Ohio; Raccoon Creek (Beaver County, Pennsylvania), a stream in Beaver County; Raccoon ...
The headwaters of Raccoon Creek are between Little Sugarloaf Mountain and South Buck Mountain. [3] Raccoon Creek is a small stream, with a width of 2.2 metres (7.2 ft). It has a moderate gradient of 19.9 meters per kilometer. [3] The creek has been known to overflow its banks and flood nearby homes. [6]
The smaller parcel, 6.2 acres (2.5 ha) in extant is about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) west of the main parcel, located adjacent to the western edge of Raccoon Creek State Park also in Hanover Township. The Game Lands falls within the Raccoon Creek watershed which is part of the Ohio River watershed.
Buck Creek, in the south part of the county, flows eastward and joins the Little Wabash above Clay City. Raccoon Creek flows southeastward from the lower part of the county into Wayne County . [ 7 ] The highest point on the terrain (646 feet/197 meters ASL) is a small point along the western border with Marion County .
The township is transversed north–south by Interstate Route 57 and State Route 37 and east as far as State Route 37 by State Route 161. According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 35.72 square miles (92.5 km 2 ), of which 35.25 square miles (91.3 km 2 ) (or 98.68%) is land and 0.46 square miles (1.2 km 2 ) (or 1.29%) is ...