Fivemile Creek (East Branch Oil Creek tributary)
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| Fivemile Creek Tributary to East Branch Oil Creek | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Crawford |
| Township | Rome Sparta |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | divide between Fivemile Creek and Shirley Run |
| • location | about 2 miles east-northeast of Buell Corners, Pennsylvania |
| • coordinates | 41°45′55″N 079°37′48″W / 41.76528°N 79.63000°W[1] |
| • elevation | 1,680 ft (510 m)[2] |
| Mouth | East Branch Oil Creek |
• location | about 3 miles northeast of Centerville, Pennsylvania |
• coordinates | 41°47′03″N 079°41′15″W / 41.78417°N 79.68750°W[1] |
• elevation | 1,348 ft (411 m)[2] |
| Length | 4.87 mi (7.84 km)[3] |
| Basin size | 10.75 square miles (27.8 km2)[4] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | East Branch Oil Creek |
| • average | 20.86 cu ft/s (0.591 m3/s) at mouth with East Branch Oil Creek[4] |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | East Branch Oil Creek → Oil Creek → Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of Mexico |
| River system | Allegheny River (Oil Creek) |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | unnamed tributaries |
| • right | unnamed tributaries |
| Bridges | Hatchtown Road, PA 89 |
Fivemile Creek is a 4.87 mi (7.84 km)[5] long tributary to East Branch Oil Creek in Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
Fivemile Creek rises on the Shirley Run divide about 2 miles east-northeast of Buell Corners, Pennsylvania. Fivemile Creek then flows north and then west through Fish Flats and the Erie Drift Plain to East Branch Oil Creek.
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