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 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 about 4 km north-east of Narellan and 7 km west of Minto.

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.

In 1926, a hydroelectric plant was built by the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company on Wallenpaupack creek at the former village of Wilsonville, which now lies under Lake Wallenpaupack.

The name derives from Trail Creek, a creek whose mouth occurs in Lake Michigan, forming the harbor for Michigan City, Indiana.

Southwest of the city, the creek has been dammed to form a small reservoir, Plainville Township Lake.

The Town of Machias straddles the border of the Mississippi River Drainage Basin, with waters flowing out of Lime Lake flowing north and then west to Lake Erie and eventually the Saint Lawrence Seaway to the Atlantic Ocean, and waters of Ischua creek, less than one mile ( 1. 6 km ) south of Lime Lake, flowing south towards the Allegheny River and eventually the Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico.

Thomas and Calyin Thompson made an early settlement at Sand Lake village, the former building a saw mill and forge on the creek there.

As Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Train No. 5, The Pacific Express, crossed the Ashtabula River bridge, the Howe truss structure collapsed, dropping the second locomotive of two and 11 passenger cars into the frozen creek below.

This creek was dammed in the early 20th century creating a small body of water known as Lake Lenape.

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.

The city is situated along Cypress Creek, near the creek's modern confluence with the Kentucky Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River ( the original lower of the creek were entirely engulfed by Tennessee River with the completion of Kentucky Dam in 1944 ).

Others soon followed: James Lake ; Pleasant Green Taylor, who settled on the Urban Stewart claim ; David Jenkins, who put up a small house on the south portion of Stewart's claim ; William W. Dixon, who settled by a small creek that would bear his name ; Stephen Ordway ; Luman A. Shurtleff ; and others.

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.

The creek is impounded to form Lake Marinuka.

The hamlet's namesake bridge spans the creek, which empties into Oneida Lake 2. 25 linear miles approximately north-northwest of the bridge.

Alternately trails and rough roads do exist from the Chilcotin side of the range, and may be accessed via BC Highway 20, from Williams Lake, departing from the main route to Bella Coola at Tatla Lake to connect to the Homathko River and up a side creek or glacier from there.

Before construction of the canal, Lake Union emptied into Salmon Bay via a creek which followed roughly the same course as the Fremont Cut does today.

Prior to the construction of a dam on the outlet of Clear Lake, both steelhead and Pacific lamprey ascended Cache creek to spawn in Clear lakes tributaries.

Indigenous people had been portaging between the lakes for centuries, either carrying canoes or shoving them along an intermittent creek that appeared when Lake Washington overflowed.

The source of Ravenna Creek has been reduced to Cowen Park ; since completion of partial daylighting in 2006, the creek has been reconnected to Lake Washington.

It once drained into Lake Washington via Ravenna Creek, but in 1911 the water level was lowered by 7 feet ( 2. 1 m ) to create parkland, causing the creek to dry up between Green Lake and Cowen Park.

The lower 5 mi ( 8 km ) of the creek form a small arm of Lake Sakakawea.

The creek with its waterfall are a hanging valley entering as a tributary to the glaciated main valley of Cayuga Lake.

The last 3 miles of the creek lie between the reservation boundary and the Tongue River, in Wyoming.

Brown trout from a western Wyoming creek

Crazy Woman Creek is a creek in the United States, in Johnson County, Wyoming.

As it flows westward out of Wyoming County to the hamlet of Yorkshire, the creek forms the boundary between the south part of Erie County and the northern borders of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties.

Finally there is White Deer Hole Creek, the only major creek in Lycoming County on the right bank ( i. e. south and west ) of the river.

The creek is one of the few places in Lancaster County where a natural trout population remains.

Two miles ( 3 km ) north of Ferdinand, the old highway passed underneath an impressive timber railroad trestle ( photos ) of the Camas Prairie Railroad, then descended into the canyon to cross the creek into Lewis County.

In the early 1840s the village of Yellow Creek was established in southwest Stephenson County, Illinois on a creek also named Yellow Creek.

This creek served as a trail to the interior of LaPorte County.

The creek bed cuts a significant valley across the hilly central ridge of the Calvert County peninsula, until it reaches the flood plains of the on the Patuxent's East banks, where it becomes more marshy.

Nestled along a mountain river and in a wide valley along a creek, Cullowhee is one of the oldest settlements in Jackson County, and reportedly had the first school in the area, a one room school in 1830.

In the late 1950s, the city purchased large parcels of land along East Cache Creek in northern Comanche County for the construction of a man-made lake with a dam built in 1959 on the creek just north of U. S. 277 west of Elgin.

Another Eufaula, known as a lower creek town, was located on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River, within the limits of the present County of Quitman in the State of Georgia.

And still another lower creek town, called Eufaula, was located on the Chattahoochee River, in Henry County, Alabama.

They returned and the creek served as the southern boundary of Lycoming County and Washington Township when it was formed in 1795.

This creek originates a spring found in Penn's Cave in Centre County and eventually drains into the Susquehanna River.

* Lycoming Creek – A creek that forms the southeastern border of the township with Lycoming County.

Onion Creek is also the name of a creek that starts in Hays County, Texas and empties into the Colorado River ( Texas ).

The western boundary of Tuckahoe is formed by Tuckahoe Creek, a large undeveloped swampy creek which forms part of the boundary between Goochland County and Henrico County.

The creek itself is a 12. 6-mile-long creek that originates near the Everett Mall and flows southward through Snohomish County and northern King County.

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.

Bridgeport straddles the northward-flowing Chittenango Creek, which serves as the boundary between Onondaga County, New York's Town of Cicero, New York on the west side of the creek and Madison County, New York's Town of Sullivan, New York on the east side of the creek.