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Conodoguinet Creek is a
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of the
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in South central
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.Gertler, Edward. ''Keystone Canoeing'', Seneca Press, 2004. The name is Native American, and means "A Long Way with Many Bends". Conodoguinet Creek joins the Susquehanna River upstream of
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. The headwaters for the Conodoguinet lie within the Fort Loudon, PA State Game Lands just East of Cowan's Gap State Park and McConnellsburg, PA. The Creek flows in a northerly direction through several State Games lands before emptying into the LetterKenny Reservoir near Roxbury, PA. From the reservoir, the Creek flows generally East passing Newville, Carlisle, and Mechanicsburg before terminating as it empties into the Susquehanna River. The water divide between Conodoguinet Creek and
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is sometimes used as the boundary between the
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. It flows past many mills, including Maclay's Mill. The
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crosses the creek near
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Bridges

* The Ramp Covered Bridge crosses Conodoguinet Creek at Hopewell Township in
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. ''Note:'' This includes * There were formerly four more wooden covered bridges over the creek, but two were destroyed by storms ("Good Hope Mill" and "Watts Bridge") and the other three ("Erb's," "Orr's," and "Oyster Mill") were replaced by modern concrete bridges after they became so old as to be unreliable. Watts Bridge, near Creekside, the home of
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, was also replaced by a concrete structure in the 1980s-90s; the Good Hope Mill bridge was never replaced after its destruction. * Wolfs Bridge, a steel truss bridge in Middlesex Township, in Cumberland County, crosses the Conodoguinet Creek near Schlusser. It failed inspection in 2013, and a concrete replacement bridge will be completed in late 2020 or early 2021. * Silver Spring Bridge, Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania was a covered bridge destroyed by the flood from
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, June 1972. The new bridge, on Rich Valley Road, had already been in use for most traffic.


See also

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U.S. Geological Survey: PA stream gaging stations
{{authority control Rivers of Pennsylvania Tributaries of the Susquehanna River Rivers of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania placenames of Native American origin