title: Ashtabula River
text: # Ashtabula River
  
  The Ashtabula River is a river located northeast of Cleveland in Ohio. The river flows into Lake Erie at the city of Ashtabula, Ohio. It is 40 miles (64 km) in length and drains 137 square miles (350 $km^2).$
  
  ## Name
  
  Ashtabula derives from Lenape language ashte-pihële, 'always enough (fish) to go around, to be given away', a contraction from apchi 'always' + tepi 'enough' + hële (verb of motion).
  
  According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Ashtabula River has also been known as:
  
  * Ashtibula River
  * Riviere Auscubalu
  * Riviere Oscubolu
  
  ## Watershed
  
  On October 30, 2008 the river was designated a State Scenic River by the Director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
  
  ### Pollution
  
  In 1985 the first two miles of the river was named an "Area of Concern" by the International Joint Commission, primarily because of Fields Brook, a tributary that had received discharges from 19 industries between the 1940s and 1970s. The cleanup was deemed complete in 2014 and the river was delisted in 2021.
  
  ### Tributaries
  
  * Fields Brook
  * Strong Brook
  * Hubbard Run
  * Ashtabula Creek
  * West Branch Ashtabula River
  * East Branch Ashtabula River
  