Sligo Creek rises in Kemp Mill, and the hiker-biker trail that runs alongside the creek from Wheaton Regional Park to the Anacostia River passes through the community.

Since the creek continues to flow atop this ice, the water level of the creek gradually rises as more ice accumulates on the bottom, in some cases causing flooding on the north side of town where the channel is not as deep.

The creek rises in Tenafly, on the west side of the Palisades, approximately 1 mile ( 1. 6 km ) from the Hudson River.

The creek rises in Java Lake in Wyoming County.

The creek rises from a spring near Laytonsville in Montgomery County, Maryland, and joins the Potomac near Georgetown and the Watergate in Washington, D. C. Beginning in the Derwood – Rockville area in Maryland, the creek flows through

The road drops to cross a creek, then rises again to the NY 55 exit, one of two roads serving the city of Poughkeepsie to the west, near Freedom Plains.

The creek rises in London Township in the north-central portion of the county and flows southeast into Lake Erie at Sterling State Park on the south side of Detroit Beach in Frenchtown Charter Township.

The creek rises at the continental divide near Loveland Pass in the Front Range, northwest of Grays Peak in western Clear Creek County.

The creek rises in several branches in the foothills of the Front Range northwest of Boulder.

In most of its length it is normally a dry creek ; it rises in the Wirrabara Forest area in the Mid North region of the state of South Australia and is one of the major tributaries to the Broughton River, which it joins about 15 km from the latter's mouth.

These may still survive in refuges such as Pirron Yaloak creek and various freshwater springs flowing from the stony rises on the south west side of the lake.

The creek itself rises near Tinker's Creek State Park in Streetsboro, Portage County.

Navigable for only a short distance, the creek quickly rises into the Piedmont and through a series of small falls, provides a dependable source of power for mills.

Puget Creek is a small urban creek in the U. S. state of Washington, in the north end of Tacoma, It rises in Puget Park and flows north to Commencement Bay, part of Puget Sound.

Harnessing a team to a buckboard, they drove out to a willow-lined creek about a half-mile off, then climbed down and began chopping.

South of Westerland, the island extends for about 15 km in the form of a spit, until it is cut by the Hörnumtief tidal creek, that runs through the Wadden Sea mudflats east of Sylt.

By the end of the year, over one hundred tents were scattered about the creek and the settlement was referred to as Angels Trading Post, later shortened to Angels Camp.

Colonel Thomas Bailey came from Kentucky and formed the first settlement on the north fork of the creek which was about five miles to the northeast.

The first white man known to arrive was a German, Johann Schoonover, who lived for a short time on the creek later named for him to trade with the Indians, about 1820.

The main attraction of Kings Plains National Park is bushwalking along the creek to Kings Plains Falls is seen as an enjoyable trip of about 2. 5 hours.

Hartford was incorporated in 1900 and as a result, the old original town of Hartford, about one and a half miles west and named for a creek crossing belonging to the Hart family, is now generally referred to as " Old Town " or " West Hartford ".

The Concow region is 20 miles north of the city of Oroville ( an Anglo-Hispanic compound meaning ' gold-town ') and about the same distance east of the town of Chico ( named for Rancho Arroyo Chico — meaning ' little creek ranch ' -- which was established through a land-grant from the Mexican authorities in 1844, two years before California was invaded by United States forces, an indication that there was some Mexican presence near the Concow region.

:" The village received its name from the following circumstance: The first settlement was made on the present site, which is on the south bank of the creek, and about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) south of the village of Cahokia.

In a little log cabin near the creek about 15 student, half white and half Indian were the first to attend.

Stanford had a post office from about 1898 to 1901, a sawmill on the creek that lay about a mile south of the town, and a school on a site of directly across from the post office.

In 1865, August Lambrecht built a water-driven grain and flour mill on the creek about from the river.

) situated on the creek and canal, near the center of the town, contains three churches, viz., Reformed, Baptist and Roman Catholic ; two hotels, two stores, a school, two blacksmith shops, three wagon shoes, an undertaker, coal yard, a harness shop, a shoe shop, two milliners, a meat market, a cement kiln and about 550 inhabitants.

Lawrenceville, names in honor of Mr. Watson E. Lawrence, is situated on the creek, about a mile above Rosendale, and contains two cement manufactories and about 400 inhabitants.

Creek Locks, ( p. v ) in the east part of the town, where the canal locks into the creek, contains two stores, a grocery, a school and about 25 dwellings.

The No. 3 Colliery was located along Shupp's creek about a mile east of the No. 2 Colliery.

In September 1895, a dam was constructed across the creek and water began backing-up forming " Lake Naomi ", a lake more than a mile long and about one-third of a mile wide.

Diamond Lake, WA ( elevation 2, 345 ft .) is about to the southwest, and is also part of the Little Spokane River watershed ( outflow only ) via a creek runoff from the uninhabited far west end of the lake.

By 1921, Monongahela Traction had opened a second mine in the area near Baxter, about a mile up Paw Paw creek.

Legend has it that War Creek was in turn named by the local Native Americans about 1788 because of a battle which occurred near the source of the creek.

A lake formed by the creek near these springs has been greatly enlarged by damming the creek and now covers about, making it the largest body of salt water in the state.

In 1878, the railroad purchased a site for a station across the creek in Queen Anne ’ s County, and, quite logically, named it Queen Anne when the station was finally put into service about 1882.

It is a spectacular ribbon waterfall that is located on a tributary creek a short distance east of the Inspiration Point Overlook, 0. 4 mile ( 640 m ) west of the park visitor center.

The city can be defined as a more densely built downtown valley threaded by Alhambra creek and north of Highway 4.

On 4 July 1862, Stuart crossed the Katherine River ( 90 km upstream from the present town ) and recorded in his diary: " Came upon another large creek, having a running stream to the south of west and coming from the north of east.

The port has an oil terminal 4 km further upriver, to which tankers discharge while at anchor in the creek.

The adjective little distinguishes the creek from the ( Greater ) Cataraqui River 4. 5 kilometers to the east, which forms the beginning of the Rideau Canal.

4. 6 km up the Tamaki River Maori would beach their waka ( canoes ) at the end of a small creek ( that now passes under the southern motorway ) and drag them overland ( where Portage Road is now ) to the Manukau harbour.

The creek begins southwest of Kemptville and empties 4 km NE into the Rideau River.

Near the mouth, the creek reaches a depth of roughly 15 feet ( 4. 5 m ), but after that, the creek never reaches more than three feet ( 0. 9 m ) deep.

The forest includes the 1, 085 acre ( 4. 4 km² ) Dunnfield Creek Natural Area ; the creek is designated a Wild Trout Stream.