Skippack Creek facts for kids
Historic Bridge on Allentown Road (Franconia Township, PA) over Skippack Creek.
Skippack Creek is a 15.7-mile-long (25.3 km) tributary of Perkiomen Creek in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Skippack Creek joins Perkiomen Creek approximately 3 miles (5 km) upstream of that creek's confluence with the Schuylkill River.
A portion of the creek flows through Evansburg State Park and passes by the census-designated place of Skippack.
Skippack is a Native American name purported to mean "a pool of stagnant water".
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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