Kinzua Creek

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

Kinzua Creek
Kinzua Creek in the Allegheny National Forest near the Allegheny Reservoir
Kinzua Creek is located in Pennsylvania
Kinzua Creek
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]

Geography

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. Vol. 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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