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Little Conewago Creek is a 24.9-mile-long (40.1 km) [1] tributary of Conewago Creek in York County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Little Conewago Creek joins the Conewago Creek between the boroughs of York Haven and Manchester .
The name of the creek comes from the Lenape, meaning "at the rapids", [3] although the rapids are not on Conewago Creek. [4] Instead, the rapids are the Conewago Falls beyond the creek's mouth in the Susquehanna River, which also give their name to the other Conewago Creek, whose mouth is on the east bank of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin and Lancaster counties, only 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north ...
Conewago Creek can refer to the following streams in Pennsylvania in the United States. All are in the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin via the Susquehanna River, and are located either east or west of the river. Conewago Creek (west) has its source in Adams County and mouth in York County. It has the following tributaries with "Conewago" as part ...
The Conewago Creek watershed has a total area of 52.5 square miles (136 km 2) and is part of the larger Chesapeake Bay drainage basin via the Susquehanna River. 53% of the watershed by area is given to agriculture. 15.8 miles (25.4 km) of Conewago Creek downstream of its confluence with Little Conewago Creek are impaired, that is they are "too ...
Bennett Run [1] is a 6.8-mile-long (10.9 km) [2] tributary of Conewago Creek in York County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The Kise Mill Bridge spans Bennett Run in Newberry Township . See also
Crum Creek. Little Crum Creek; Stony Creek; Trout Run; West Crum Creek; Darby Creek. Stoney Creek; Muckinipattis Creek; Hermesprota Creek; Bow Creek (Tidal stream, flowed into what once was the back channel of Hog Island. Obliterated due to the expansion of I 95.) Cobbs Creek. Naylors Run; Indian Creek; Ithan Creek. Meadowbrook Run; Little ...
The Conewago Recreation Trail is a public recreational rail trail that follows the once Cornwall-Lebanon Railroad rail corridor for a total of slightly over 5.0 miles. The trail stretches from Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, to the Lebanon County Line, Pennsylvania, at which point it links up to the Lebanon Valley Rail Trail which continues for another 15.0 miles.
The Conewago Mountains played a role in the early colonization and settling of the region, with settlers north of the mountains being predominantly Scotch-Irish and those south of the range being mostly Germans from the Palatinate region. The mountains provided a source of timber and firewood, and small iron foundries dotted the valley below to ...