Sleepy Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
accessed August 15, 2011

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of the

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in the

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, belonging to the

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's watershed. The stream rises in Frederick County,

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, and flows through Morgan County,

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before joining the Potomac near the community of

Sleepy Creek Sleepy Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 tributary of the Potomac River in the United States, belonging to the Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin, ...

. While Sleepy Creek Lake is a part of the Sleepy Creek watershed, it is an impoundment of its tributary, Meadow Branch, in

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and not of Sleepy Creek itself.

Course

Sleepy Creek's source lies north of State Route 127 in Frederick County,

, near the Hampshire County,

border at

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. From Frederick County, Sleepy Creek flows north through Morgan County, West Virginia, where it drains into the Potomac at the community of

on the old

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's mainline.

Tributaries

Tributary streams listed from south (source) to north (mouth). *Bear Garden Run *Hands Run *Breakneck Run *Indian Run **South Fork Indian Run **Middle Fork Indian Run **North Fork Indian Run *Rock Gap Run *Middle Fork Sleepy Creek **Iden Run *South Fork Sleepy Creek **Merchant Run *Mountain Run *Yellow Spring Run * Meadow Branch

Bridges

Cities and towns along Sleepy Creek

* Johnsons Mill * New Hope * Omps *

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* Smith Crossroads * Spohrs Crossroads * Stotlers Crossroads

References

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