Skippack Creek

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Historic Bridge on Allentown Road (Franconia Township, PA) over Skippack Creek.

Skippack Creek is a Template:Convert[1] tributary of Perkiomen Creek in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in the United States.[2] Skippack Creek joins Perkiomen Creek approximately Template:Convert upstream of that creek's confluence with the Schuylkill River.[2]

A portion of the creek flows through Evansburg State Park and passes by the census-designated place of Skippack.[2]

Skippack is a Native American name purported to mean "a pool of stagnant water".[3]

It is stocked with brown and rainbow trout; other fish in the creek include smallmouth bass, catfish, sucker, carp, panfish, and freshwater eel.

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  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
  2. a b c Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. Template:ISBN
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