Skippack Creek

Skippack Creek is a 15.7-mile-long (25.3 km)[1] tributary of Perkiomen Creek in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in the United States.[2] Skippack Creek joins Perkiomen Creek approximately 3 miles (5 km) upstream of that creek's confluence with the Schuylkill River.[2]

Historic Bridge on Allentown Road (Franconia Township, PA) over Skippack Creek.

A portion of the creek flows through Evansburg State Park and passes by the census-designated place of Skippack.[2]

Skippack is a Native American name purported to mean "a pool of stagnant water".[3]

It is stocked with brown and rainbow trout; other fish in the creek include smallmouth bass, catfish, sucker, carp, panfish, and freshwater eel.

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
  2. Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
  3. Espenshade, Abraham Howry (1925). Pennsylvania Place Names. Evangelical Press. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-8063-0416-8.


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