Tunungwant Creek | |
Name Other: | Tributary to Allegheny River |
Pushpin Map: | New York#USA |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Tunungwant Creek mouth |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | United States |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | New York Pennsylvania |
Subdivision Type3: | Counties |
Subdivision Name3: | Cattaraugus McKean |
Subdivision Type4: | City |
Subdivision Name4: | Bradford (PA) |
Length: | 12.78miles[1] |
Discharge1 Location: | Allegheny River |
Discharge1 Avg: | 315.95cuft/s at mouth with Allegheny River[2] |
Source1: | confluence of East and West Branch Tunungwant Creek |
Source1 Location: | Bradford, Pennsylvania |
Source1 Coordinates: | 41.9581°N -78.6414°W[3] |
Source1 Elevation: | 1421feet |
Mouth: | Allegheny River |
Mouth Location: | about 5 miles southeast of Salamanca, New York |
Mouth Coordinates: | 42.0837°N -78.65°W |
Mouth Elevation: | 1335feet |
Progression: | Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of Mexico |
River System: | Allegheny River |
Tributaries Left: | West Branch Tunungwant Creek Bolivar Run Latchaw Creek Limestone Brook Rice Brook |
Tributaries Right: | East Branch Tunungwant Creek Kendall Creek Foster Brook Stateline Brook Nichols Run Leonard Brook Bailley Brook |
Bridges: | Mill Street, North Kendall Avenue (PA 46), PA 346, US 219, Tuna Cross Road, Bailey Drive, Irvine Mills Drive |
Tunungwant Creek is a 12.78miles long fifth-order tributary to the Allegheny River.[1] This is the only stream of this name in the United States. According to a 1792 Reading Howell map of Pennsylvania, the stream was known as Ischunuangwandt. Today, it is locally known as 'The Tuna'.[3]
Tunungwant Creek forms at the confluence of East and West Branch Tunungwant Creek in McKean County, Pennsylvania in Bradford and then flows north to meet the Allegheny River about southeast of Salamanca, New York.
Tunungwant Creek drains of area, receives about and is about 83.58% forested.[2]