The Walhonding River is a principal tributary of the Muskingum River,Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry long,Ohio Department of Natural Resources. A Guide to Ohio Streams. Chapter 10: Major Ohio Watersheds (pdf) in east-central Ohio in the United States. Via the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. It drains an area of .
The Walhonding flows for its entire length in Coshocton County. It is formed by the confluence of the Mohican River and the Kokosing River and flows generally east-southeast,*DeLorme (1991). Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. passing through Mohawk Dam, which was built in the 1930s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the purpose of flood control in the Muskingum River watershed, and through the towns of Nellie and Warsaw. Downstream of Warsaw it collects Killbuck Creek. It meets the Tuscarawas River at the city of Coshocton to form the Muskingum River.
Variant names According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Walhonding River has also been known historically as: Muskingum River ("West branch") Walhandink River West Branch of the Muskingum White Woman Creek White Woman River White Womans Creek White Womans River Whitemans Creek Whitewoman Creek Whitewomans Creek Wolhonding River
The name "White Womans Creek" (and variants) was probably originally intended to refer specifically either to the Kokosing River or to the Mohican River;hand-drawn map circa-1815, private-collection -- which indicates that the village of "Jerometown" was on "Whitewomans Creek" and during that same period (mid-1700s), the Walhonding was known only as the "West branch of the Muskingum".Hutchins, Thos.; surveys and maps mid-1700s The final name "Walhonding" was newly chosen by legislators sometime after the 1820s.
See also List of rivers of Ohio
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