Sandy Creek (Ohio)
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox river
| name = Sandy Creek
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| image = Sandy Creek Ohio.jpg
| image_caption = Sandy Creek near its mouth, downstream of Bolivar Dam in 2006
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| pushpin_map = USA Ohio
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location of the mouth of Sandy Creek
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| subdivision_name1 = United States
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| subdivision_name2 = Ohio
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| length = {{convert|41.3|mi|km|abbr=on}}{{Cite web|url= http://soilandwater.ohiodnr.gov/portals/soilwater/pdf/stream/GAZETTEER_OF_OHIO_STREAMS.pdf#page=82| title= GAZETTEER_OF_OHIO_STREAMS|accessdate=2010-01-07 |author= Ohio Department of Natural Resources}}
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| discharge1_location = Waynesburg{{Cite web|url=http://pubs.usgs.gov/wdr/2005/wdr-oh-05/ |pages = [http://pubs.usgs.gov/wdr/2005/wdr-oh-05/pdf/vol_1/OHwy05vol1_Pt2.pdf Surface-water records, Surface-water records, Beaver through Muskingum River Basins (p. 41–77)] |title=USGS Ohio Water Resources Data, Water Year 2005. |first= J. P. |last=Mangus |author2=S. R. Frum |publisher=United States Geological Survey |accessdate=2007-05-21}}
| discharge1_min = {{convert|6.9|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}
| discharge1_avg = {{convert|278|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}
| discharge1_max = {{convert|15000|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}
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| source1_location = Hanover Township, Columbiana County
| source1_coordinates = {{coord|40|46|19|N|80|54|09|W|display=inline}}{{Cite web|url={{Gnis3|1066944}} |title=GNIS entry for Sandy Creek (Feature ID #1066944)| author= Geographic Names Information System |authorlink=Geographic Names Information System |accessdate=2007-01-12}}
| source1_elevation = {{convert|1299|ft|abbr=on}}
| mouth = Tuscarawas River
| mouth_location = Bethlehem Township, Stark County
| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|40|39|28|N|81|26|14|W|display=inline,title}}
| mouth_elevation = {{convert|887|ft|abbr=on}}
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| basin_size = {{convert|504|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| tributaries_left = Still Fork
| tributaries_right = Nimishillen Creek
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Sandy Creek is a tributary of the Tuscarawas River, {{convert|41.3|mi|km}} long, in northeastern Ohio. Via the Tuscarawas, Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of {{convert|503|mi2|km2}}.
Geography
Sandy Creek rises in Hanover Township, approximately {{convert|2|mi|km|spell=in}} northeast of Hanoverton in western Columbiana County and flows generally west-southwestwardly through northwestern Carroll County, southeastern Stark County and northeastern Tuscarawas County, past the communities of Kensington, Minerva, Malvern, Waynesburg and Magnolia. It joins the Tuscarawas River from the east in Bethlehem Township in Stark County, approximately {{convert|1|mi|km|spell=in}} northeast of Bolivar. At Minerva, it collects the Still Fork. At Waynesburg, it collects a short stream known as Little Sandy Creek.{{Cite web|url={{Gnis3|1042637}} |title=Geographic Names Information System entry for Little Sandy Creek | accessdate=2007-01-12}} In Sandyville, Tuscarawas County it collects Nimishillen Creek, which drains the city of Canton.{{Cite book| title= Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer |year=1991 |publisher= DeLorme |location=Yarmouth, Me. |isbn= 0-89933-233-1 |pages= 51–53}}
A dry dam, Bolivar Dam, constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, spans the creek near its mouth.{{Cite web | url = http://www.lrh.usace.army.mil/projects/lakes/bos/ | title = Bolivar Dam | author = United States Army Corps of Engineers | accessdate = 2007-01-12 | url-status = bot: unknown | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070206103232/http://www.lrh.usace.army.mil/projects/lakes/bos/ | archivedate = 2007-02-06 }}
Flow rate
At the United States Geological Survey's stream gauge in Waynesburg,[http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?03117500 real time flow information] the annual mean flow of the river between 1939 and 2005 was {{convert|278|ft3/s|m3/s|lk=on|sp=us}}. The highest recorded flow during the period was {{convert|15,000|ft3/s|m3/s|abbr=on}} on January 22, 1959. The lowest recorded flow was {{convert|6.9|ft3/s|m3/s|abbr=on}} on an unspecified date.
Variant names
According to the Geographic Names Information System, Sandy Creek has also been known historically as:
- Big Sandy Creek
- Big Sandy River
- Elks Eye Creek
- Lamanshicolas Creek
- Lamenshikola Creek