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MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

WATERWAYS

CREEKS

[photo, Great Blue Heron, College Creek, Annapolis, Maryland]

For any state, bays and rivers obviously are significant. In Maryland, however, creeks too become especially important for some are the size of rivers. More notably, these tributaries contribute to the geographic and geologic consistency of the Chesapeake Bay, and are equally effected in return.

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), College Creek, Annapolis, Maryland, July 2010. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

[photo, Little Hunting Creek, Thurmont, Maryland]

By definition, a creek is a natural stream of water, normally smaller than, and often tributary to a river. Often, creek waters flow directly into Chesapeake Bay, or merge with other Bay tributaries, such as the Patapsco, the Patuxent, and the Potomac rivers.

Little Hunting Creek, Thurmont, Maryland, January 2006. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Maryland possesses one of the most notable creeks in the nation - Antietam Creek. There, during the Civil War, on September 17, 1862, after twelve hours of fighting along its banks, approximately 23,000 soldiers were dead, wounded, or missing - the single bloodiest day of battle in American history.

Today, Maryland's creeks predominately are used for recreation, though some have been transformed into nature reserves. Recreational creeks may be found within national, State, and local parks. Chicamuxen Creek in Queen Anne's County, and Tuckahoe Creek in Talbot County, for example, both are located in State parks, while Antietam Creek passes through Antietam National Battlefield Park.

ALLEGANY COUNTY

Evitts Creek
Fifteenmile Creek
Flintstone Creek
Georges Creek (formerly Lonaconing Creek)
Maple Run
Matthew Run
Mill Creek
Patterson Creek
Rock Gully Creek
Sideling Hill Creek
Town Creek (formerly Oldtown Creek)
Wills Creek

[photo, Sailboats at piers, Back Creek, Annapolis, Maryland]

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY

Aberdeen Creek
Aisquith Creek
Almshouse Creek
Back Creek
Barley Creek
Beards Creek

Sailboats, Back Creek, Annapolis, Maryland, October 2008. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Blackhole Creek
Blackwalnut Creek
Bodkin Creek
Brewers Creek
Broad Creek
Broadwater Creek
Cabin Creek
Cadle Creek
Carrs Creek
Cat Branch Creek
Cattail Creek
Chase Creek
Cheston Creek
Church Creek
Clements Creek
Cockey Creek

[photo, Crew team on College Creek, Annapolis, Maryland]

College Creek

Cornfield Creek

Cox Creek

Crab Creek

Cross Creek

Curtis Creek

Cypress Creek

Crew team on College Creek, Annapolis, Maryland, April 2000. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Deep Creek
Dividing Creek
Dorseys Creek
Duvall Creek
Fishing Creek
Forked Creek
Furnace Creek
Gales Creek
Gingerville Creek
Glebe Creek
Graveyard Creek
Grays Creek
Harness Creek
Herring Creek
Holly Creek
Lerch Creek (formerly Deep Creek)
Little Round Bay Creek
Lone House Creek
Luce Creek
Lyons Creek
Main Creek
Marley Creek
Meredith Creek
Mill Creek
Muddy Creek

[photo, Early morning at Stoney Creek, Pasadena, Maryland]

Nabbs Creek
Old Man Creek
Oyster Creek
Parish Creek
Park Creek
Parker Creek
Plum Creek
Popham Creek (formerly Lane Creek)

Early morning at Stoney Creek, Pasadena, Maryland, June 2000. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Ridout Creek
Rock Creek
Rockhold Creek
Saltworks Creek
Sawmill Creek
Scaffold Creek
Sellman Creek
Shorts Creek
South Creek
Spa Creek (formerly Todds Creek)
Stoney Creek
Swan Creek
Tenthouse Creek
Tracy Creek
Valentine Creek
Weems Creek
Wharf Creek
Whitehall Creek
Whitemarsh Creek
Yant Creek

BALTIMORE CITY

Colgate Creek
Gorsuch Creek
Jones Falls

BALTIMORE COUNTY

CALVERT COUNTY

Back Creek

Battle Creek

Ben Creek

Buzzard Island Creek

Chew Creek

Cocktown Creek

Fishing Creek

Sailboats docked on St. Leonard Creek, Calvert County, Maryland, May 2002. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Hall Creek
Hellen Creek
Hellen Gut
Hunting Creek (formerly Chingaware Creek)
Island Creek
Little Lyons Creek
Lyons Creek
Mears Creek
Mill Creek
Parker Creek
Plum Point Creek
Ramsey Creek
Rock Creek
St. John Creek
St. Leonard Creek

CAROLINE COUNTY

Bell Creek
Crowberry Creek
Deep Creek
Fowling Creek
Hay Creek
Herring Creek
Hog Creek
Marsh Creek
Marshyhope Creek
Mill Creek
Robins Creek
Skelton Creek
Spring Creek
Tub Mill Creek
Tuckahoe Creek
Upper Hunting Creek
Watts Creek

CARROLL COUNTY

Alloway Creek
Avondale Creek
Big Pipe Creek
Double Pipe Creek
Little Pipe Creek
Little Run Creek
Muddy Creek
Piney Creek
Pipe Creek
Sams Creek

CECIL COUNTY

Back Creek
Big Elk Creek
Cabin John Creek
Christiana Creek
Church Creek
Conowingo Creek
Duffy Creek
Great Bohemia Creek
Little Bohemia Creek
Little Elk Creek
Little Northeast Creek
Mill Creek
Northeast Creek
Octoraro Creek
Pearce Creek
Perch Creek
Piney Creek
Plum Creek
Pond Creek
Popemetan Creek
Principio Creek (formerly Back Creek)
Scotchman Creek

CHARLES COUNTY

Avon Creek
Beaverdam Creek
Boot Creek
Budd Creek
Burgess Creek
Charleston Creek
Chicamuxen Creek
Cuckold Creek
Devil Nest Creek
Dolly Boarmans Creek
Fenwick Creek
Goose Creek
Hatton Creek
Hilltop Fork
Indian Creek
Kings Creek
Little Creek
Mallows Creek
Mattawoman Creek
Mill Run
Mill Swamp
Nanjemoy Creek
Piccowaxen Creek
Pomonkey Creek
Popes Creek
Port Tobacco Creek
St. Thomas Creek
Swansons Creek

DORCHESTER COUNTY

FREDERICK COUNTY

GARRETT COUNTY

Bear Creek
Beaver Creek
Cherry Creek
Church Creek
Crabtree Creek
Deep Creek (formerly Green Glades Creek)
Fork Creek
Georges Creek (formerly Lonaconin Creek)
Herrington Creek
Middle Fork Creek
Muddy Creek
North Fork Creek
Rhine Creek
Snowy Creek
South Fork Crabtree Creek
South Fork Creek

HARFORD COUNTY

Big Branch Creek
Black Hawk Spring
Boone Creek
Broad Creek
Bush Creek
Canal Creek
Church Creek
Cooper Creek
Deep Creek
Deer Creek
Gasheys Creek
Graveyard Creek
Island Branch Creek
Jackson Creek
Kings Creek
Lauderick Creek
Little Deer Creek
Monks Creek
Mosquito Creek
Otter Point Creek
Reardon Inlet
Romney Creek
Swaderick Creek
Swan Creek
Watson Creek
Wright Creek

HOWARD COUNTY

Cattail Creek
Deep Creek

KENT COUNTY

MONTGOMERY COUNTY

Bennett Creek
Cabin John Creek
Dry Seneca Creek
Goshen Creek
Great Seneca Creek
Gunner Creek
Little Seneca Creek
Long Draught Creek
Mill Creek
Rock Creek
Seneca Creek
Sopers Creek
Tenmile Creek
Wild Cat Creek

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY

Beaver Dam Creek
Black Swamp Creek
Broad Creek
Henson Creek
Indian Creek
Isidoras Creek
Little Point Creek
Mattaponi Creek
Mattawoman Creek
Oxon Creek
Parker Creek
Piscataway Creek
Rock Creek
Swan Creek
Swansons Creek
Tinkers Creek

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY

ST. MARY'S COUNTY

SOMERSET COUNTY

TALBOT COUNTY

WASHINGTON COUNTY

Antietam Creek
Bear Creek
Beaver Creek
Conococheague Creek
Great Tonoloway Creek
Grove Creek
Israel Creek
Licking Creek
Little Antietam Creek
Little Beaver Creek
Little Conococheague Creek
Little Tonoloway Creek
Sideling Hill Creek
Tonoloway Creek

WICOMICO COUNTY

Barren Creek
Beaverdam Creek
Blackwater Creek
Broad Creek
Collins Gut
Cutmaptico Creek
Dashiell's Creek
Dennis Creek
Dividing Creek
Dung Creek
Grimes Creek
Horsebridge Creek
Hutton Creek
Manahowic Creek
Morumsco Creek
Nassawango Creek
Passerdyke Creek
Peters Creek
Plum Creek
Quantico Creek
Renonco Creek
Rewastico Creek
Robins Creek
Rockawalking Creek
South Prong Creek
Tonytank Creek
Tyaskin Creek
Wetipquin Creek
Windsor Creek

WORCESTER COUNTY

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