Maiden Creek

Maiden Creek in Trexler, Pennsylvania in October 2009
Maiden Creek joins the Schuylkill River north of Reading.

Maiden Creek is a 20.3-mile-long (32.7 km)[1] tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks County, Pennsylvania.[2] The name "Maiden" is an English translation of the Native American word Ontelaunee.[3] Maiden Creek is formed by the confluence of Ontelaunee and Kistler creeks in the community of Kempton. The tributary Sacony Creek joins at the community of Virginville.[2]

The creek was dammed in 1926 to form Lake Ontelaunee. The creek joins the Schuylkill River north of the city of Reading, for which it serves as the main drinking water supply.[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 April 1, 2011
  2. ^ a b c Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
  3. ^ "Ontelaunee wasn't settlers' first choice". Reading Eagle. 3 June 2002. pp. B8. Retrieved 23 April 2015.