Mosquito Creek is a stream in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
. The long stream is a confluence of the Mahoning River.
Mosquito Creek was descriptively named for the
mosquito
Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a Family (biology), family of small Diptera, flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word ''mosquito'' (formed by ''Musca (fly), mosca'' and diminutive ''-ito'') is Spanish and Portuguese for ''little fly''. Mos ...
s which were once frequent there. Native Americans called this creek the Tawawa.
The creek runs from SE of Warren, Ohio, to Mosquito Creek Lake in Cortland, Ohio. The exact geographical location of the beginning of Mosquito Creek is 41.17690° N, 80.76242° W.
See also
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List of rivers of Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. The state takes its name from the Ohio River, whose name in turn originated from the Seneca word '' ohiːyo, meaning "good river", "great river" or "large creek". The Ohi ...
References
Rivers of Champaign County, Ohio
Rivers of Shelby County, Ohio
Rivers of Ohio
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