West Branch Neshaminy Creek is one of two branches of the
Neshaminy Creek, the other being the
North Branch, part of the
Delaware River
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watershed
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* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
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[MacReynolds, George, ''Place Names in Bucks County, Pennsylvania'', Doylestown, Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, PA, 1942, P1.] It is located in
Bucks
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Places
* Buckinghamshire, England, abbreviated Bucks
* Bucks, Alabama, United States, an unincorporated community
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and
Montgomery Counties in Pennsylvania.
Course
West Bank Neshaminy Creek rises from an unnamed pond southeast of County Line Road between Church Street and East Township Line Road at an elevation of , flowing south for about where it meets an unnamed tributary from the left bank, then turns to the southeast for about where it meets a tributary from the right. Then it meanders to the east, then northeast, then southeast, picking up three more tributaries from the right and one from the left (Arrowhead Spring Creek) before meeting up with the North Branch to form the Neshaminy at an elevation of , total length of the branch is , resulting in an average slope of . The West Branch drains .
Named tributaries
*
Reading Creek
Municipalities
*
Bucks County
**
Chalfont Borough[
** New Britain Township][
* Montgomery County
** Hatfield Township][
** Hatfield Borough][
** Franconia Township][
]
Bridges
See also
* List of rivers of Pennsylvania
* List of rivers of the United States
* List of Delaware River tributaries
References
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Rivers of Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Tributaries of the Neshaminy Creek