Английская Википедия:Chiques Creek
Chiques Creek (known as Chickies Creek until 2002) is a Шаблон:Convert[1] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Lebanon and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania in the United States.
The source is at an elevation of Шаблон:Convert near Mount Gretna Heights in Lebanon County. The mouth is the confluence with the Susquehanna River at an elevation of Шаблон:Convert at Marietta in Lancaster County.[2]
Name
The name of the creek comes from the Lenape Chiquesalunga, meaning "place of crayfish".[3]
The United States Geological Survey Board on Geographic Names has made three official decisions on the name of the creek, deciding it was Chickies Creek in 1896 and 1916 before changing it to Chiques Creek in 2002. The USGS Geographic Names Information System recognizes the following thirteen variant names for the creek: Big Chickies Creek, Big Chiques Creek, Big Chiquesalunga Creek, Chickesalapga Creek, Chickeswalungo Creek, Chickies Creek, Chickisalungo Creek, Chicques Creek, Chikiswalunga Creek, Chikiswalungo Creek, Chiquasatunga Creek, Chiquesatonga Creek, and Chiquesatunga Creek.[4]
Course and watershed
Chiques Creek flows generally south for its entire course. The Chickies Creek watershed has a total area of Шаблон:Convert and is part of the larger Chesapeake Bay drainage basin. Chiques Creek's major tributary is Little Chiques Creek, entering roughly one mile upstream its mouth. (hence the variant names with Big in them for the main creek).[5]
Covered bridges
Five covered bridges cross the creek in Lancaster County:
- Shearer's Covered Bridge
- Kauffman's Distillery Covered Bridge
- Schenck's Mill Covered Bridge
- Siegrist's Mill Covered Bridge
- Forry's Mill Covered Bridge
Tributaries
See also
References
Шаблон:Susquehanna River System Шаблон:Authority control
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Шаблон:Webarchive, accessed August 8, 2011
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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