title: Raccoon Creek (Erie County, Pennsylvania)
text: # Raccoon Creek (Erie County, Pennsylvania)
  
  Raccoon Creek is located in northwestern Pennsylvania just west of West Springfield in Erie County. Its mouth opens into Lake Erie not far from the Ohio border. Raccoon Creek Park is a township picnic area located just to the east of the creeks.
  
  ## Course
  
  Raccoon Creek rises in a pond on the Conneaut Creek divide about 2 miles south of West Springfield, Pennsylvania and then flows northeast and turns north-northwest to join Lake Erie about 6 miles north of West Springfield, Pennsylvania.
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Raccoon Creek drains 8.31 square miles (21.5 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 41.9 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 499.60, and is about 53.74% forested.
  
  