French Creek | |
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![]() Near the mouth at Franklin | |
Location | |
Country | United States |
State | New York, Pennsylvania |
County | Chautauqua County, New York, and Erie, Crawford, Mercer, and Venango counties in Pennsylvania |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | North Harmony State Forest |
• location | near French Creek, New York, Chautauqua County, New York |
• coordinates | 42°06′14″N 79°31′52″W / 42.10389°N 79.53111°W[1] |
• elevation | 1,737 ft (529 m)[2] |
Mouth | Allegheny River |
• location | Franklin, Pennsylvania |
• coordinates | 41°23′30″N 79°49′13″W / 41.39167°N 79.82028°W[1] |
• elevation | 961 ft (293 m)[1] |
Length | 117 mi (188 km) |
Basin size | 1,270 sq mi (3,300 km2) |
Discharge | |
• location | Utica |
• average | 2,019 cu ft/s (57.2 m3/s)[3] |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Alder Bottom Creek Beaver Meadow Brook Herrick Creek Hubbel Run Alder Run South Branch French Creek Muddy Creek Mohawk Run Gravel Run Woodcock Creek Shellhammer Hollow Bennyhoof Creek Mill Run Little Sugar Creek Powdermill Run McCune Run Sugar Creek Patchel Run |
• right | Black Brook West Branch French Creek Lake Pleasant Outlet Wheeler Creek LeBoeuf Creek Campbell Run Conneauttee Creek Foulk Run North Deer Creek Mill Creek |
French Creek (also known as the Venango River) is a tributary of the Allegheny River in northwestern Pennsylvania and western New York in the United States.