Chiques Creek

Chiques Creek
Kauffman's Distillery Covered Bridge spans Chiques Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Location
CountryLebanon and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, United States
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationMount Gretna Heights, Pennsylvania
 • elevation1,100 feet (340 m)
Mouth 
 • location
Susquehanna River at Marietta, Pennsylvania
 • elevation
230 feet (70 m)
Length31.6 miles (50.9 km)
Basin size126 square miles (330 km2)

Chiques Creek (known as Chickies Creek until 2002) is a 31.6-mile-long (50.9 km)[1] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Lebanon and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania in the United States.

The source is at an elevation of 1,100 feet (340 m) near Mount Gretna Heights in Lebanon County. The mouth is the confluence with the Susquehanna River at an elevation of 230 feet (70 m) at Marietta in Lancaster County.[2]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed August 8, 2011
  2. ^ Shaw, Lewis C. Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams Part II (Water Resources Bulletin No. 16). Prepared in Cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey (1st ed.). Harrisburg, PA: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Resources (no ISBN).