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Evitts Creek is a tributary stream of the North Branch Potomac River in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and Maryland. The confluence of Evitts Creek and the North Branch Potomac River is located 2 miles (3 km) east of Cumberland, Maryland. Evitts Creek is 30.2 miles (48.6 km) long. [1] It flows from southwestern Pennsylvania through western ...
Gardenville–North Branch Rural Historic District is a national historic district located at Gardenville, Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.The district includes 107 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 18 contributing structures in the village of Gardenville and surrounding rural areas.
Pine Run is a tributary of the North Branch Neshaminy Creek, part of the Delaware River watershed.Pine Run flows entirely in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, rising in Plumstead Township, passing through Buckingham Township and New Britain Township, meeting its confluence with the North Branch in the Borough of Chalfont.
Neshaminy Creek is a 40.7-mile-long (65.5 km) [1] stream that runs entirely through Bucks County, Pennsylvania, rising south of the borough of Chalfont, where its north and west branches join. Neshaminy Creek flows southeast toward Bristol Township and Bensalem Township to its confluence with the Delaware River .
Wills Creek enters Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in Londonderry Township, passing through Hyndman and making a sharp turn southward. It crosses from Pennsylvania into Maryland near Ellerslie in Allegany County, Maryland. It then runs past Corriganville and near Narrows Park before entering the North Branch Potomac River at Cumberland, Maryland.
Susquehanna Riverlands in Salem Township, 8 miles (13 km) south of Wilkes-Barre, has 0.5 miles (0.8 km) of river walking path and filled canal owned and managed by Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. [8] Lock No. 1 and a section of the original North Branch Canal in Northumberland were intact in 1986 as was Lock No. 2 below Bloomsburg.
In years of drought, the streambeds of West Branch and East Branch Fishing Creeks typically run dry for 105 days over summer; even in wet years they are dry for an average of 5 days. [21] Near Bloomsburg, Fishing Creek's discharge has ranged between 10 cubic feet per second (0.28 m 3 /s) and 5,350 cubic feet per second (151 m 3 /s). [39]
At Cumberland, the river turns southeast. 103 miles (166 km) downstream from its source, the North Branch is joined by the South Branch between Green Spring and South Branch Depot, West Virginia from whence it flows past Hancock, Maryland and turns southeast once more on its way toward Washington, D.C., and the Chesapeake Bay.