Skippack Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of Perkiomen Creek in

Montgomery County Montgomery County may refer to: Australia * The former name of Montgomery Land District, Tasmania United Kingdom * The historic county of Montgomeryshire, Wales, also called County of Montgomery United States * Montgomery County, Alabama * Mon ...

, Pennsylvania in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ''Keystone Canoeing'', Seneca Press, 2004. Skippack Creek joins Perkiomen Creek approximately upstream of that creek's confluence with the Schuylkill River. A portion of the creek flows through

Evansburg State Park Evansburg State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Lower Providence, Lower Salford, Skippack, Towamencin, and Worcester Townships in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park has a variety of habitats including forests ...

and passes by the census-designated place of Skippack. ''Skippack'' is a Native American name purported to mean "a pool of stagnant water". It is stocked with brown and

rainbow trout The rainbow trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead (sometimes called "steelhead trout") is an anadromous (sea-run) form of the coasta ...

; other fish in the creek include smallmouth bass, catfish, sucker,

carp Carp are various species of oily freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fish native to Europe and Asia. While carp is consumed in many parts of the world, they are generally considered an invasive species in parts of ...

, panfish, and freshwater eel.

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Rivers of Pennsylvania Tributaries of the Schuylkill River Rivers of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-river-stub

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