Allegheny Creek

Stream in Pennsylvania, USA

40°14′21″N 075°59′32″W / 40.23917°N 75.99222°W / 40.23917; -75.99222^[1] • elevation640 ft (200 m)^[2] MouthSchuylkill River

• location

Gibraltar, Pennsylvania

• coordinates

40°17′20″N 075°52′31″W / 40.28889°N 75.87528°W / 40.28889; -75.87528^[1]

• elevation

154 ft (47 m)^[3]Length10.84 mi (17.45 km)^[4]Basin size17.85 square miles (46.2 km²)^[5]Discharge • locationSchuylkill River • average27.25 cu ft/s (0.772 m³/s) at mouth with Allegheny Creek^[5] Basin featuresProgressionSchuylkill River → Delaware River → Delaware Bay → → Atlantic OceanRiver systemSchuylkill RiverTributaries • leftunnamed tributaries • rightSleepy Hollow RunWaterbodiesGreen Hills LakeBridgesPA 568, Horning Road, Maple Grove Road, Gebhart School Road, Hartz Store Road, Gunhart Road, I-76, PA 10, Seton Road, PA 568, Evergreen Road, Everts Lane, Tumbleweed Way, White Bear Way, Green Hills Road, Old River Way

Allegheny Creek is an 11.3-mile-long (18.2 km)^[6] tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks County, Pennsylvania in the United States.

The origin of Allegheny Creek is Green Hills Lake in the community of Green Hills. Allegheny Creek joins the Schuylkill River at the village of Gibraltar.

It is crossed by the Allegheny Aqueduct, built as part of the Schuylkill Canal in 1824.

References

^ ^a ^b "GNIS Detail - Allegheny Creek". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
^ "Get Maps". USGS Topoview. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
^ "Get Maps". USGS Topoview. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
^ "ArcGIS Web Application". epa.maps.arcgis.com. US EPA. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Allegheny Creek Watershed Report". US EPA Geoviewer. US EPA. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 1, 2011