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Blackbird Creek Tributary to Delaware Bay | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Delaware |
County | New Castle |
City | Townsend |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | On the watershed divide between Blackbird Creek and the Chester River |
• location | Dexter Corners, Delaware |
• coordinates | 39°19′25″N 075°41′46″W / 39.32361°N 75.69611°W[1] |
• elevation | 75 ft (23 m)[2] |
Mouth | 2 miles north of Taylors Bridge, Delaware |
• location | Taylors Bridge, Delaware |
• coordinates | 39°26′19″N 075°34′27″W / 39.43861°N 75.57417°W[1] |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m)[2] |
Length | 16.28 mi (26.20 km)[3] |
Basin size | 8,022 ha[4] |
Basin features | |
Progression | Delaware Bay → Atlantic Ocean |
River system | Delaware River |
Tributaries | |
• left | Barlow Branch Herring Run Beaver Branch |
• right | Sandom Branch Fishing Creek Mill Creek Gravel Gut |
Waterbodies | Blackbird Pond |
Bridges | Greenspring Road Oliver Guessford Road Railroad Crossing Blackbird Station Road US 13 Blackbird Landing Road DE 9 |
Blackbird Creek is a 16.9-mile-long (27.2 km)[5] river in northern Delaware in the United States.