Yellow Creek (previously also known as Linton) is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Saline Township, Jefferson County,

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, United States. It is located northwest of Hammondsville at the intersection of

Ohio State Route 7 State Route 7 (SR 7), formerly known as Inter-county Highway 7 until 1921 and State Highway 7 in 1922, is a north–south state highway in the southern and eastern portions of the U.S. state of Ohio. At about in length, it is the longest ...

and

Ohio State Route 213 State Route 213 (SR 213) is a north–south state highway located in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. The highway's southern terminus is at an interchange that doubles as the northern split of the concurrency of U.S. Route 22 ...

where the Yellow Creek empties into the

Ohio River The Ohio River () is a river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to its river mouth, mouth on the Mississippi Riv ...

, at . The Linton Post Office was established as Mouth of Yellow Creek Post Office (in Columbiana County) on May 12, 1832, and the name changed to Linton Post Office on March 30, 1855. The branch was discontinued on September 30, 1901. A famous fossil deposit ("the Linton site") is located at Yellow Creek. It is within the

Allegheny Group The Allegheny Group, often termed the Allegheny Formation, is a Pennsylvanian (geology), Pennsylvanian-age geological unit in the Appalachian Plateau. It is a major coal-bearing unit in the eastern United States, extending through western and cen ...

of Carboniferous ( Pennsylvanian)- age sedimentary rocks.

References

Unincorporated communities in Jefferson County, Ohio {{JeffersonCountyOH-geo-stub