Kinzua Creek

Kinzua Creek /ˈkɪnzuː/ is a 26.5-mile (42.6 km) tributary of the Allegheny River in McKean County, Pennsylvania in the United States.[4]

Kinzua Creek
Kinzua Creek in the Allegheny National Forest near the Allegheny Reservoir
Location of the mouth of Kinzua Creek in Pennsylvania
EtymologyKentschuak, Delaware for "they gobble"[1]
Location
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountyMcKean
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationCyclone, McKean County, Pennsylvania
 • coordinates41°50′8″N 78°35′13″W[2]
 • elevation2,220 ft (680 m)[3]
MouthAllegheny River
 • location
Allegheny Reservoir, McKean County, Pennsylvania
 • coordinates
41°51′29″N 78°57′13″W[2]
 • elevation
1,328 ft (405 m)[3]
Length26.5 mi (42.6 km)[3]
Basin size86 sq mi (220 km2)[3]

The upper reaches of the creek pass through Kinzua Bridge State Park, where the creek was spanned by the Kinzua Viaduct until a tornado destroyed the viaduct in 2003.[4]

Kinzua Creek (Native American for "turkey"[5]) joins the Allegheny Reservoir 10 miles (16 km) upstream of the city of Warren, a few miles upstream of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River.[4] The location is also the former location of Kinzua, an unincorporated community that was wiped out as a result of the construction of the Kinzua Dam; it previously formed the boundary between Kinzua and (West) Corydon before both communities were dissolved in the 1960s.

See also

References
  1. Heckewelder, John; Peter S. Du Ponceau (1834). "Names Which the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians, Who Once Inhabited This Country, Had Given to Rivers, Streams, Places, &c. &c...". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. American Philosophical Society. 4: 364.
  2. "Kinzua Creek". Geographic Names Information System. August 2, 1979. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
  3. Shaw, L. C.; W. F. Busch (June 1984). Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams, Part II. Water Resources Bulletin. 16. Prepared in Cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Department of Forest and Waters. p. 259.
  4. Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
  5. Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 176.


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