Wyomissing Creek

Wyomissing Creek is a 9.1-mile-long (14.6 km)[1] tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It joins the Schuylkill River at the boundary of West Reading Borough and the City of Reading, Pennsylvania.

The name "Wyomissing" is derived from a Native American language and is purported to mean "place of flats".[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. ^ Wagner, A. E.; Balthaser, Francis Wilhauer; Hoch, D. K. (1913). The Story of Berks County (Pennsylvania). Eagle Book and Job Press. p. 28.