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Beaver River (Pennsylvania)
The
Beaver River
is a
tributary
of the
Ohio River
in
Western Pennsylvania
in the
United States
with a length of approximately 21 mi (34 km). It flows through a historically important
coal
-producing region north of
Pittsburgh
. The Beaver River is formed in
Lawrence County
by the confluence of the
Mahoning
and
Shenango
rivers at a point approximately 3 mi (5 km) southwest of
New Castle
. It flows generally south, past
West Pittsburg
and
Homewood
. It receives
Connoquenessing Creek
west of
Ellwood City
and flows past
Beaver Falls
and
New Brighton
. It joins the Ohio at
Bridgewater
and
Rochester
(flowing between these two towns) at the downstream end of a sharp bend in the Ohio approximately 20 mi (32 km) northwest of (and downstream from) Pittsburgh. In the lower reaches near the Ohio River, the Beaver cuts through a gorge of underlying
sandstone
. The river is roughly parallel to the border with the state of
Ohio
, with both
Interstate 376
and
Pennsylvania Route 18
running parallel to the river itself.
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