Drawyer Creek Tributary to Appoquinimink River | |
---|---|
Location of mouth in Delaware Location of mouth in United States | |
Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Delaware |
County | New Castle |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | divide between Drawyer Creek and Back Creek |
• location | Meadowbrook Farms, Delaware[1] |
• coordinates | 39°30′13″N 075°42′19″W / 39.50361°N 75.70528°W[2] |
• elevation | 70 ft (21 m)[1] |
Mouth | Delaware Bay |
• location | about 1 northeast of Odessa, Delaware[1] |
• coordinates | 39°27′57″N 075°42′19″W / 39.46583°N 75.70528°W[2] |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m)[1] |
Length | 6.26 mi (10.07 km)[3] |
Basin size | 15.56 square miles (40.3 km2)[4] |
Discharge | |
• location | Delaware Bay |
• average | 17.75 cu ft/s (0.503 m3/s) at mouth with Delaware Bay[4] |
Basin features | |
Progression | Appoquinimink River → Delaware Bay → Atlantic Ocean[3] |
River system | Delaware Bay |
Tributaries | |
• left | unnamed tributaries |
• right | unnamed tributaries |
Drawyer Creek is a 6.26 mi (10.07 km) long tributary to the Appoquinimink River in New Castle County, Delaware. Drawyer Creek is a mostly tidal tributary to the Appoquinimink River and is non-tidal above Shallcross Lake. Old Drawyers Church, a historic church, is located to the south of the creek.
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Drawyer Creek Topo Map, New Castle County DE (Middletown Area)". TopoZone. Locality, LLC. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- 1 2 "GNIS Detail - Drawyer Creek". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- 1 2 "ArcGIS Web Application". epa.maps.arcgis.com. US EPA. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- 1 2 "Drawyer Creek Watershed Report". Waters Geoviewer. US EPA. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.