Broad Creek is a tributary of the lower Susquehanna River located in Harford County,

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. Broad Creek originates on the west side of Constitution Road about 500 feet south of the

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portion of the Susquehanna. It flows through just two properties in its lower five miles, that of the

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Broad Creek Memorial Scout Reservation Broad Creek Memorial Scout Reservation, more commonly called just Broad Creek, is the sum of eight separate areas in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The reservation is from the Maryland and Pennsylvania border within Harford County, from the Mary ...

, it was dammed to create Lake Aaron Straus and passes close to the

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Broad Creek Soapstone Quarries archaeological site. Downstream from the 1948 Boy Scout dam, the creek forms a noteworthy gorge through the largest and oldest

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grove in the state east of the

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. Northeast Area

accessed March 1, 2013 At the east edge of the reservation, about two miles from its mouth, the creek meets the headwaters of the reservoir. The drainage basin, watershed is , all in Harford County except for three small areas in York County, Pennsylvania about two miles east of

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, 1.5 miles northwest of Whiteford, Maryland, and the southeast part of

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.Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Annapolis, MD
"Broad Creek."
''Maryland's Surf Your Watershed--Watershed Profile.'' August 2000. Broad Creek Maryland 20220616.jpg, Looking west and upstream from the Route 623 bridge (Flintville Road) Broad Creek 20220616 b.jpg, Looking east and downstream from same bridge

References

* United States Geological Survey. Reston, VA
"Broad Creek."
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(GNIS).'' Accessed 2010-08-30. {{authority control Rivers of Harford County, Maryland Rivers of Maryland Tributaries of the Susquehanna River