Monocacy Creek (Schuylkill River tributary)

For the Lehigh River tributary, see Monocacy Creek (Lehigh River tributary).

Monocacy Creek[1] is a 13.0-mile-long (20.9 km)[2] tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Monocacy Creek joins the Schuylkill at Monocacy Station.

Monocacy is a name derived from a Native American language purported to mean "stream with large beds".[3]

  1. ^ GNIS Detail – Monocacy Creek
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map
  3. ^ Wagner, A. E.; Balthaser, Francis Wilhauer; Hoch, D. K. (1913). The Story of Berks County (Pennsylvania). Eagle Book and Job Press. p. 28.