Twelvemile Creek is a
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...
of
Lake Erie
Lake Erie ( "eerie") is the fourth largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has t ...
located in
Erie County in the
U.S. state of
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, ...
.
Course
Twelvemile Creek joins Lake Erie in
Harborcreek Township.
Natural history
Twelvemile Creek is stocked with
steelhead by the Pennsylvania Fish Commission. Crayfish, frogs and waterbugs are plentiful. The stream also has many natural small waterfalls made of Pennsylvania Blue stone.
See also
*
List of rivers of Pennsylvania
References
Rivers of Pennsylvania
Tributaries of Lake Erie
Rivers of Erie County, Pennsylvania
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