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French Creek begins near French Creek, New York, and flows about 117 miles (188 km) to the Allegheny River at Franklin, Pennsylvania. The creek's drainage basin covers 1,270 square miles (3,300 km 2). [7] The watershed includes parts of Erie, Crawford, Venango, and Mercer counties in Pennsylvania as well as Chautauqua County in New York. [1]
The Allegheny River drainage basin covers parts of New York and Pennsylvania in the United States. The Allegheny River drainage basin is part of the Mississippi riverine system . This article contains a list of tributaries of the Allegheny River , a stream in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania .
151.52 cu ft/s (4.291 m 3 /s) at mouth with French Creek [5] Basin features; Progression: French Creek → Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of Mexico: River system: Allegheny River: Population: 5,059 (2010) Tributaries • left: Lilley Run Hungry Run Horton Run • right: Spencer Creek Baskin Run Slaughter Run ...
S. Sandy Creek (Allegheny River tributary) Sandy Lick Creek; Seventy One; Sheppard Run (East Branch Tunungwant Creek tributary) South Branch French Creek (French Creek tributary)
Fort Machault (/ m ɑː ˈ ʃ ɔː l /, French:) was a fort built by the French in 1754 near the confluence of French Creek with the Allegheny River, in northwest Pennsylvania. (Present-day Franklin developed here later.) The fort helped the French control these waterways, part of what was known as the Venango Path from Lake Erie to the Ohio River.
The trail, a portage between these important water routes, was named after the Lenape (formerly known as Delaware) village of Venango, at the confluence of French Creek and the Allegheny River. The village site was later developed by European Americans as the small city of Franklin, Pennsylvania.
The Allegheny River (/ ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ ɡ eɪ n i / AL-ig-AY-nee) is a 325-mile-long (523 km) tributary of the Ohio River that is located in western Pennsylvania and New York in the United States.
Franklin is located at the confluence of French Creek and the Allegheny River, an important site used for centuries by Native Americans. They had long before developed what became known as the Venango Path, passing from the head of French Creek north to Presque Isle Bay on Lake Erie. Via French Creek and the Allegheny River, the portage ...