Perkiomen Creek

Perkiomen Creek joins the Schuylkill River west of Norristown
Perkiomen Creek in Rahns, Pennsylvania, in May 2021

Perkiomen Creek is a 37.7-mile-long (60.7 km)[1] tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks, Lehigh, and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania.[2] Historically, the water course was also named Perquaminck Creek, on Thomas Holme's 1687 map of the region, which was published by William Penn, founder of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania.

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
  2. ^ Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6

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