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The drainage basin of Turtle Creek is designated as a Warmwater Fishery and a Migratory Fishery. [17] In the 1930s, the creek was noted in the Pennsylvania Angler to be a viable spot for sucker fishing. [18] The riparian buffers of Turtle Creek are diminished or completely absent in the areas where the creek flows through agricultural land.
Turtle Creek is the English translation of the Native American name, [4] naming the area for its abundance of turtles. [5] During the mid-eighteenth century, the Turtle Creek valley lay on the western frontier of the British colony of Pennsylvania, and much of its early written history revolved around the French and Indian War.
Turtle Creek is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The population was 5,114 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] George Westinghouse constructed a manufacturing plant nearby.
Turtle Creek (also known as Turtle Run) is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long and flows through Conyngham Township. [1] The watershed of the creek has an area of 1.59 square miles (4.1 km 2). Wisconsinan Bouldery Till, Wisconsinan Ice-Contact ...
The route becomes the border between Turtle Creek to the northeast and the borough of Wilmerding to the southwest before fully entering Wilmerding. PA 130 curves east and comes to an interchange with Patton Street, at which point the Yellow Belt splits from the route by heading south.
The portion which ran downstream from Trafford on the right bank of the Turtle Creek waterway would be dubbed the East Pittsburgh Branch and was leased back to the Westinghouse Company, which operated its Interworks Railway on the tracks until a flood control project on Turtle Creek broke apart the tracks in 1962.
Turtle Creek (Monongahela River), a tributary of the Monongahela River, which flows through Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania; Turtle Creek (West Branch Susquehanna River), a tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Union County, Pennsylvania; Turtle Creek (South Dakota) Turtle Creek (Dallas County, Texas), a tributary of the Trinity River
Propel was founded in 2014 in Brooklyn, New York City by Jimmy Chen, a former Facebook engineer, [3] through a fellowship at Robin Hood Foundation's tech incubator Blue Ridge Labs. [2] The company initially developed a website to help New York City residents apply for SNAP benefits. [ 4 ]