Chiques Creek (known as ''Chickies Creek'' until 2002) is a
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Susquehanna River
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in
Lebanon and
Lancaster counties,
Pennsylvania in the
United States.
The source is at an elevation of near
Mount Gretna Heights in Lebanon County. The mouth is the
confluence
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with the Susquehanna River at an elevation of at
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in Lancaster County.
Name
The name of the creek comes from the
Lenape
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''Chiquesalunga'', meaning "place of
crayfish
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".
The
United States Geological Survey Board on Geographic Names has made three official decisions on the name of the creek, deciding it was Chickies Creek in 1896 and 1916 before changing it to Chiques Creek in 2002. The USGS
Geographic Names Information System recognizes the following thirteen variant names for the creek: Big Chickies Creek, Big Chiques Creek, Big Chiquesalunga Creek, Chickesalapga Creek, Chickeswalungo Creek, Chickies Creek, Chickisalungo Creek, Chicques Creek, Chikiswalunga Creek, Chikiswalungo Creek, Chiquasatunga Creek, Chiquesatonga Creek, and Chiquesatunga Creek.
Course and watershed
Chiques Creek flows generally south for its entire course. The Chickies Creek watershed has a total area of and is part of the larger
Chesapeake Bay drainage basin. Chiques Creek's major tributary is
Little Chiques Creek, entering roughly one mile upstream its mouth. (hence the variant names with Big in them for the main creek).
Covered bridges
Five covered bridges cross the creek in Lancaster County:
*
Shearer's Covered Bridge
*
Kauffman's Distillery Covered Bridge
*
Schenck's Mill Covered Bridge
*
Siegrist's Mill Covered Bridge
*
Forry's Mill Covered Bridge
The Forry's Mill Covered Bridge is the last covered bridge that spans Chiques Creek in West Hempfield in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. A county-owned and maintained bridge, its official designation is the Big Chiques #7 Bridge ...
Tributaries
*
Donegal Creek
*
Little Chiques Creek
*
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Hife Run
*
Boyers Run
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*
Shearers Creek
See also
*
List of rivers of Pennsylvania
References
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Rivers of Pennsylvania
Tributaries of the Susquehanna River
Rivers of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Rivers of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania