Pepper Creek (Delaware)

Pepper Creek
Location of the mouth of Pepper Creek
Location of the mouth of Pepper Creek
Location of the mouth of Pepper Creek
Location of the mouth of Pepper Creek
Location
CountryUnited States
StateDelaware
CountySussex
CityFrankford
Physical characteristics
SourceOn the watershed divide between Pepper Creek and Pocomoke River
 • locationFrankford, Delaware
 • coordinates38°32′07″N 075°17′14″W / 38.53528°N 75.28722°W / 38.53528; -75.28722[1]
 • elevationabout 40 feet amsl
Mouthjust south of Oak Orchard, Delaware
 • location
Clarksville, Delaware
 • coordinates
38°35′16″N 075°10′03″W / 38.58778°N 75.16750°W / 38.58778; -75.16750[1]
 • elevation
sea level (0 ft.)
Basin features
Progressionnortheast
River systemIndian River

Pepper Creek is a stream approximately 8 mi (13 km) long in southern Delaware in the United States.

It rises in Cypress Swamp in southern Sussex County, approximately 3 mi (5 km) north of the Maryland state line. It flows generally east-northeast, past Dagsboro and into Indian River Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 2 mi (3 km) northwest of Millville.

The upper course of the creek is connected by channelized ditches through Cypress Swamp to the headwaters of the Pocomoke River.

  1. ^ a b "GNIS Detail - Pepper Creek". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 29 May 2019.