Little Mill Creek is a long 3rd order tributary to
Christina River
The Christina River is a tributary of the Delaware River, approximately 35 miles (56 km) long, in northern Delaware in the United States, also flowing through small areas of southeastern Pennsylvania and northeastern Maryland. Near i ...
in
New Castle County, Delaware
New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex). As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of th ...
.
Variant names
According to the
Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories, Antarctica, and the associated states of ...
, it has also been known historically as:
*Mill Creek
*Taswaijeeskil
*Tesswijreskijl
Course
Little Mill Creek rises on the Brandywine Creek divide about 0.5 miles west of Greenville in
New Castle County, Delaware
New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex). As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of th ...
. Little Mill Creek then flows generally south to meet Christina River at Wilmington, Delaware.
Watershed
Little Mill Creek drains of area, receives about 46.5 in/year of precipitation, has a
topographic wetness index The topographic wetness index (TWI), also known as the compound topographic index (CTI), is a steady state wetness index. It is commonly used to quantify topographic control on hydrological processes. The index is a function of both the slope and t ...
of 494.65 and is about 14% forested.
See also
*
List of rivers of Delaware
References
Rivers of Delaware
Tributaries of the Christina River
{{Delaware-river-stub