Mill Creek (Philadelphia)

For the West Philadelphia neighborhood, see Mill Creek, Philadelphia.


Mill Creek
The bowl in Clark Park was once a mill pond fed by Mill Creek
Location
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
Physical characteristics
SourceNarbeth
 • locationMontgomery County, Pennsylvania
Mouth 
 • location
Schuylkill River
 • coordinates
39°56′35″N 75°12′20″W / 39.943047°N 75.2056826°W / 39.943047; -75.2056826
Basin sizeabout 5,000 acres (20 km2)
Discharge 
 • locationSchuylkill River

Mill Creek rises in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; runs southeasterly to West Philadelphia, where it enters 19th-century sewer pipes; and debouches roughly five miles later in the Schuylkill River near The Woodlands Cemetery. It starts near Narberth, where its source is buried, then runs free for a mile or so before entering Philadelphia at the Overbrook station.

The creek, which drains about 5,000 acres (20 km2), gave its name to two neighborhoods in Philadelphia that it flows under.

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