Yellow Breeches Creek

Fishing in the Boiling Springs Lake tributary to the Yellow Breeches Creek in Boiling Springs
Covered bridge over the Creek at Messiah University

Yellow Breeches Creek,[1] also known as Callapatscink Creek, Callapatschink Creek (Lenape for "where it returns") or Shawnee Creek[2] is a 56.1-mile-long (90.3 km)[3] tributary of the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania, USA. There is no agreed upon explanation for the name Yellow Breeches Creek, which is found in land warrants as early as 1736.[4]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Yellow Breeches Creek
  2. ^ Runkle, Stephen A. (September 2003). "Native American Waterbody And Place Names Within the Susquehanna River Basin and Surrounding Subbasins" (PDF). Susquehanna River Basin Commission. p. 29. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed August 8, 2011
  4. ^ Bob Rowland, "History of the Callapatschink / Yellow Breeches Creek," prepared for the Yellow Breeches Watershed Association, August 2001.