Leatherwood Creek is a

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of Wills Creek, long, in eastern

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in the

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. Via Wills Creek and the Muskingum and

rivers, it is part of the

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of the

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, draining an area of on the

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portion of the Allegheny Plateau. Leatherwood Creek rises just outside the western boundary of the village of Barnesville in Warren Township in

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and flows generally westward, first through a small portion of northeastern Beaver Township in Noble County, and into

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where it flows through Millwood, Richland,

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, Center, and

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townships, and through the villages of Quaker City, Salesville, and Lore City. It flows into Wills Creek in the southern part of the city of

. Leatherwood Creek was named for the leatherwood which grew along its course.

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At the

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near the community of

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, the annual mean flow of the creek between 2000 and 2011 was 82.9 ft³/s (2 m³/s). The highest recorded flow during the period was 10,100 ft³/s (286 m³/s) on September 18, 2004. A reading of no flow was recorded on September 2, 2003.

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{{authority control Rivers of Ohio Rivers of Belmont County, Ohio Rivers of Guernsey County, Ohio Rivers of Noble County, Ohio

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