Little Neshaminy Creek is a tributary of the

Neshaminy Creek Neshaminy Creek is a United States Geological Survey. National Hydrography DatasetThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 stream that runs entirely through Bucks County, Pennsylvania, rising south of the borough of Chalfont, where its north ...

, part of the Delaware River Watershed rising near the intersection of

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and

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near Montgomeryville,

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and meets its confluence with

at the Neshaminy's 24.10

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History

There were a number of mills erected on the Little Neshaminy including the Old Hartsville Mill and the Upper and Lower Mearns' Mills. In 1942 there were ten bridges across the creek.MacReynolds, George, ''Place Names in Bucks County, Pennsylvania'', Doylestown, Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, PA, 1942, P229.

Statistics

The watershed of the Little Neshaminy Creek is , passing through surburban residential and commercial areas, as well as four public parks in Montgomery County, and

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. The Geographic Name Information System I.D. is 1179624, U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey I.D. is 02638.

Course

Rising in Montgomery Township the Little Neshaminy Creek runs generally east for about passing through Windlestrae Park on the way where it meets unnamed tributary from the left, and another unnamed tributary from the right to the east of the park, then it runs southeast for touching Nike Park, then the Bradford Reservoir Recreation Area and dam where it meets another tributary from the right in the reservoir and meets Park Creek from the right below the reservoir at the Little Neshaminy's 6.32

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. Finally, it runs generally east for about picking up one tributary from the left and five on the right where it meets its confluence at the Neshaminy Creek's 24.10

Geology

* Appalachian Highlands Division ** Piedmont Province *** Gettysburg Newark Lowland Section ****

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The Little Neshaminy lies entirely within the Lockatong geologic formation, consisting of

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, shale,

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, and

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shale.

Named tributaries

* Park Creek

Municipalities

** Northampton Township ** Warwick Township ** Warminster Township ** Warrington Township * Montgomery County ** Horsham Township ** Montgomery Township

Crossings and bridges

References

{{authority control Rivers of Pennsylvania Tributaries of the Neshaminy Creek Rivers of Bucks County, Pennsylvania