Conewago Creek (east)

For the Conewago Creek in Adams and York Counties, on the west bank of the Susquehanna River, see Conewago Creek (west).
Conewago Creek
Location
CountryLebanon, Dauphin and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, United States
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationMount Gretna Heights, Pennsylvania
 • elevation1,100 feet (340 m)
Mouth 
 • location
Susquehanna River at Falmouth, Pennsylvania
 • elevation
261 feet (80 m)
Length23.0 miles (37.0 km)
Basin size52.5 square miles (136 km2)

Conewago Creek is a 23.0-mile-long (37.0 km)[1] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Lebanon, Dauphin, and Lancaster counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. The source is at an elevation of 1,100 feet (340 m) at Mount Gretna Heights in Lebanon County. The mouth is the confluence with the Susquehanna River at an elevation of 261 feet (80 m) at the border of Dauphin and Lancaster counties, just south of Three Mile Island in the river and just north of the unincorporated village of Falmouth in Conoy Township, 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).