Ohio State Highway 315 passing over the Olentangy in Columbus in 2002.

The Olentangy River is a tributary of the Scioto River in Ohio. Image File history File links Olentangy_River. ... Image File history File links Olentangy_River. ... Ohio State Highway 315 is a controlled access freeway from Interstate 70 to Interstate 270 in Columbus, OH. It is a coninuation of Interstate 71. ... Columbus is the capital of the U.S. state of Ohio. ... 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... Skyline of downtown Columbus, Ohio, viewed across the Scioto River. ... State nickname: The Buckeye State Official languages None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Governor Bob Taft (R) Senators Mike DeWine (R) George V. Voinovich (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 34th 116,096 km² 8. ...

It was originally called keenhongsheconsepung, a Delaware word literally translated as "stone for your knife stream" based on the shale found along its shores. Early settlers to the region translated this into "Whetstone River." In 1833, the Ohio General Assembly passed legislation intending to restore the original Native American names to some Ohio waterways, but mistakenly gave Whetstone River the name "Olentangy"—Delaware for "river of the red face paint"—which had actually belonged to what is now known as Big Darby Creek. The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound. ... Shale Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. ... The Ohio General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio. ... Assiniboin Boy, an Atsina Native Americans in the United States (also Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are those indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States, and their descendants in modern times. ...

Lane Avenue bridge in Columbus, Ohio, near Ohio State University campus.

The Olentangy River rises in Morrow County, flowing to the west before turning south near Galion, and finally emptying into the dam at Delaware Lake. After exiting the dam, it continues south to join the Scioto River near downtown Columbus. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2500x1667, 700 KB) Summary Cable-stayed bridge bridge over the Olentangy River at Lane Avenue, adjacent to the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2500x1667, 700 KB) Summary Cable-stayed bridge bridge over the Olentangy River at Lane Avenue, adjacent to the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio. ... The Ohio State University The Ohio State University (formal name), also known as Ohio State or OSU, is currently the third largest public university in the United States and ranked by US News as the best public university in Ohio and the twenty-first best public university in the nation. ... Morrow County is a county located in the state of Ohio. ... Galion is a city located in Crawford and Richland Counties in Ohio. ... Columbus is the capital of the U.S. state of Ohio. ...

The stretch of the Olentangy River north of Columbus is popular for canoeing and kayaking and is central Ohio's only state-designated scenic river.

External link

• Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed