Park Creek is a tributary of the

Little Neshaminy Creek Little Neshaminy Creek is a tributary of the Neshaminy Creek, part of the Delaware River Watershed rising near the intersection of U.S. Route 202 and Pennsylvania Route 309 near Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania and meets its confluence with Nesham ...

, part of the Delaware River Watershed meeting its confluence at the Little Neshaminy's 9.00

river mile A river mile is a measure of distance in miles along a river from its mouth. River mile numbers begin at zero and increase further upstream. The corresponding metric unit using kilometers is the river kilometer. They are analogous to vehicle roa ...

History

Park Creek is named for

Graeme Park Graeme Park is an historic site and National Historic Landmark at 859 County Line Road in Horsham, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and operated by the non-profit group, The Frien ...

near Horsham,

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

.MacReynolds, George, ''Place Names in Bucks County, Pennsylvania'', Doylestown, Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1942, p. 1

Statistics

Park Creek's watershed covers , passing through suburban areas in Warrington Township, Horsham Township, Montgomery Township, and Lower Gwynedd Township. The Geographic Name Information System I.D. is 1183295, U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey I.D. is 02661.

Course

The northern branch of Park Creek rises near Hartman Road (SR 2014) in Montgomery Township, running southeast for about then turns east for , then back to southeast for to its confluence with the west branch. The west branch rises near Tennis Avenue in Lower Gwynedd Township, flowing northeast for about to the confluence. Together they form the main course of Park Creek, which runs northeast for to its confluence at the Little Neshaminy Creek 9.00 river mile. The main creek bed passes through Kohler Park, Deep Meadow Park, and flows along the northwest border of

Geology

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

Lockatong Formation The Triassic Lockatong Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. It is named after the Lockatong Creek in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Description The Lockatong is defined as a light to dark gray, greenish-gr ...

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

argillite :''"Argillite" may also refer to Argillite, Kentucky.'' Argillite () is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed predominantly of indurated clay particles. Argillaceous rocks are basically lithified muds and oozes. They contain variable amounts ...

, shale,

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

, and

calcareous Calcareous () is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime or being chalky. The term is used in a wide variety of scientific disciplines. In zoology ''Calcareous'' is used as an ad ...

shale.

Municipalities

Bucks County Bucks County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 646,538, making it the fourth-most populous county in Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Doylestown. The county is named after the English ...

** Warrington Township *

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Montgomery County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the List of counties in Pennsylvania, third-most populous county in Pennsylvania and the List of the most populous cou ...

** Horsham Township ** Montgomery Township ** Lower Gwynedd Township

Crossings and Bridges

References

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