| Mill Creek | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Shakespeare_in_Clark_Park.jpg) The bowl in Clark Park was once a mill pond fed by Mill Creek | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Narbeth |
| • location | Montgomery County, Pennsylvania |
| Mouth | |
• location | Schuylkill River |
• coordinates | 39°56′35″N 75°12′20″W / 39.943047°N 75.2056826°W |
| Basin size | about 5,000 acres (20 km2) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Schuylkill River |
Mill Creek rises in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; runs southeasterly to West Philadelphia, where it enters 19th-century sewer pipes; and debouches roughly five miles later in the Schuylkill River near The Woodlands Cemetery. It starts near Narberth, where its source is buried, then runs free for a mile or so before entering Philadelphia at the Overbrook station.[1]
The creek, which drains about 5,000 acres (20 km2), gave its name to two neighborhoods in Philadelphia that it flows under.[2]
- ^ "West Philadelphia Collaborative History - Mill Creek". collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-06-06. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
- ^ "Mill Creek Watershed". web.mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved 2019-06-07.