Beaver Creek is a large creek in
Lorain County
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Ohio
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USA
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. It flows through the township (and the village) of
Amherst, and through the western end of the corporation-limits of the City of
Lorain
Lorain may refer to:
Places
* Lorain, Ohio
* Lorain, Pennsylvania
* Lorain, Wisconsin
* Lorain County, Ohio
** Lorain County Community College
* Lorain Township, Minnesota
People
* René Lorain (born 1900), French athlete
* Sophie Lorain, Canadi ...
, and into
Lake Erie
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* The entire Beaver Creek watershed is composed of two main branches (originally called "Big Beaver" and "Little Beaver"), and several small tributaries.
* The area at the mouth/outlet of this creek has been historically known as "Oak Point". [The extensive sand beach to the immediate west of the mouth, has been called "Hole-in-the-Wall" — named for the former access routes onto the beach, via a bygone passageway there through the railroad-embankment — and also via an existing legal-right-of-way through the "Claus double-tunnel" at Quarry Creek, although presently the "Hole-in-the-Wall" beach no longer extends that far westerly. (There have been unsuccessful past local-governmental proposals to restore the whole length of the Hole-in-the-Wall beach, and re-open that "Claus double-tunnel" to the public.) ]
* Beaver Creek has an important history in the early pioneer-settlement of this land-area of Ohio ( including the Beaver Creek settlement (Ohio), "Beaver Creek Settlement" of 1810, and, in particular, the later development of the village of
Amherst. In fact, those same pioneer-settlers are said to have named this creek solely in honor of their former homeland in western Pennsylvania, ( and therefore it is uncertain if there were also a significant number of
beaver
Beavers (genus ''Castor'') are large, semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere. There are two existing species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers are the second-large ...
inhabiting this creek, which some local-historians have later asserted).
* Prior to the arrival of the pioneer-settlers from their former Beaver Falls (PA) area, this creek seems to have been known as the "Riviere en Grys".
* Beaver Creek's main branch follows these basic co-ordinates:
41.2814393 -82.2882163 / 41.3750450 -82.2393232 / 41.4361526 -82.2498785
See also
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List of rivers of Ohio
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References
Rivers of Lorain County, Ohio
Rivers of Ohio
Tributaries of Lake Erie
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