Mill Creek (Philadelphia)

For the West Philadelphia neighborhood, see Mill Creek, Philadelphia.
Mill Creek
The bowl in Clark Park was once a mill pond fed by Mill Creek
Location
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
Physical characteristics
SourceNarbeth
 • locationMontgomery County, Pennsylvania
Mouth 
 • location
Schuylkill River
 • coordinates
39°56′35″N 75°12′20″W / 39.943047°N 75.2056826°W / 39.943047; -75.2056826
Discharge 
 • locationSchuylkill 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 a neighborhood in Philadelphia that it flows under.[2]

  1. ^ "West Philadelphia Collaborative History - Mill Creek". collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-06-06. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  2. ^ "Mill Creek Watershed". web.mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved 2019-06-07.