Phillips Creek
Phillips Creek Philips Creek | |
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Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | deep valley near North Mountain in Fairmount Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania |
• elevation | between 1,820 and 1,840 feet (550 and 560 m) |
Mouth | |
• location | Huntington Creek in Fairmount Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania |
• coordinates | 41°16′05″N 76°13′26″W / 41.2680°N 76.2239°W |
• elevation | 876 ft (267 m) |
Length | 5.3 mi (8.5 km) |
Discharge | |
• average | 915 cu ft/s (25.9 m3/s) Peak annual discharge at mouth (10 percent probability) |
Basin features | |
Progression | Huntington Creek → Fishing Creek → Susquehanna River → Chesapeake Bay |
Tributaries | |
• left | one unnamed tributary |
• right | one unnamed tributary |
Phillips Creek (also known as Philips Creek
Course
Phillips Creek begins in a deep valley near North Mountain in Fairmount Township. It flows south for nearly a mile before passing through a pond and receiving two unnamed tributaries, one from the left and one from the right. The creek then flows south-southeast for a considerable distance before leaving the valley and crossing Pennsylvania Route 118. It then turns southwest and then west, entering another valley between Jackson Hill and Bethel Hill. The creek flows south-southwest and then south-southeast for approximately two miles (three kilometers). It then leaves the valley and reaches its confluence with Huntington Creek.[2]
Phillips Creek joins Huntington Creek 19.12 miles (30.77 km) upstream of its mouth.[3]
Tributaries
Phillips Creek has no officially named tributaries. However, it does have several unnamed tributaries.[2]
Hydrology
The concentration of alkalinity in the waters of Phillips Creek is 6 milligrams per liter.[4]
At the mouth of Phillips Creek, its discharge has a 10 percent chance of reaching 915 cubic feet per second in any given year. It has a 2 percent chance of reaching 1630 cubic feet per second and a 1 percent chance of reaching 2015 cubic feet per second. The creek has a 0.2 percent chance of reaching a top discharge of 3177 cubic feet per second in any given year.[5]
Geography and geology
The elevation near the mouth of Phillips Creek is 876 feet (267 m) above sea level.[1] The elevation of the creek's source is between 1,820 and 1,840 feet (550 and 560 m).[2] Its elevation at the base of North Mountain is approximately 1,200 feet (370 m) above sea level.[6]
The headwaters of Phillips Creek are in North Mountain.
Phillips Creek attempted to flow down the valley of
In its lower reaches, Phillips Creek is surrounded by bedrock made of interbedded reddish-gray shale and sandstone. Some areas near the creek are on Wisconsinan Till. Most of the till in the vicinity of the creek is expected to be more than 6 feet (1.8 m) thick. Wisconsinan Ice-Contact Stratified Drift and alluvium are also found along parts of the stream, especially in its middle and upper reaches. Additionally, an alluvial fan is present in the creek's upper reaches.[9]
Watershed
The watershed of Phillips Creek has an area of 5.54 square miles (14.3 km2).[3] The creek is entirely within the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Sweet Valley.[1]
Phillips Creek is one of the main sources of
History
Phillips Creek was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on August 2, 1979. Its identifier in the Geographic Names Information System is 1183672.[1]
A prestressed
Biology
A section of Phillips Creek is considered by the
In the early 1900s, mammals such as bobcats and bears were observed in the vicinity of Phillips Creek.[7]
See also
- Kitchen Creek (Pennsylvania), next tributary of Huntington Creek going downstream
- Lick Branch, next tributary of Huntington Creek going upstream
- List of tributaries of Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)
References
- ^ a b c d Geographic Names Information System, Feature Detail Report for: Phillips Creek, retrieved December 18, 2014
- ^ a b c d United States Geological Survey, The National Map Viewer, retrieved December 18, 2014
- ^ a b Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams (PDF), November 2, 2001, retrieved December 18, 2014
- ^ a b c d Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (December 16, 2013), Class A Wild Trout Waters (PDF), p. 25, retrieved December 18, 2014
- ^ a b c Federal Emergency Management Agency (November 2, 2012), Flood Insurance Study VOLUME 1 of 6 LUZERNE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA (ALL JURISDICTIONS) (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on April 2, 2015, retrieved December 18, 2014
- ^ Report of Progress in ..., Issues 1875–1877, 1878, p. 92
- ^ a b Edward Creveling (1911), "Hunter-trader-trapper, Volume 22, Issue 3", Hunter-trader-trapper, p. 42
- ^ Borton-Lawson (June 30, 2010), Luzerne County Act 167 Phase II Stormwater Management Plan (PDF), pp. 159, 160, archived from the original (PDF) on December 29, 2014, retrieved December 18, 2014
- ^ a b c Duane D. Braun (2007), Surficial Geology of the Sweet Valley 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (PDF), pp. 10, 17, archived from the original (PDF) on July 13, 2007, retrieved December 18, 2014
- ^ Stanley P. Karpinski (1978), The Luzerne County Critical Areas Inventory, p. 37
- ^ Luzerne County, retrieved December 18, 2014
- General Assembly of Pennsylvania (1991), HOUSE BILL No. 1959 Session of 1991, p. 118, retrieved December 18, 2014
- ^ a b Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (May 2014), Pennsylvania Wild Trout Waters (Natural Reproduction) – May 2014 (PDF), pp. 48–50, retrieved December 20, 2014
- ^ "List of Trout Streams Stocked During 1933–34" (PDF), Pennsylvania Angler, p. 14, April 4, 1934, retrieved December 18, 2014