MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

WATERWAYS

CREEKS

• Creeks (by county)

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), College Creek, Annapolis (Anne Arundel County), Maryland, July 2010. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Little Hunting Creek, Thurmont (Frederick County), Maryland, January 2006. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Waterfall on Long Green Creek, Glen Arm (Baltimore County), Maryland, April 2015. Photo by Sarah A. Hanks.

• Evitts Creek
• Fifteenmile Creek
• Flintstone Creek
• Georges Creek (formerly Lonaconing Creek)
• Maple Run
• Matthew Run
• Mill Creek
• Patterson Creek
• Rock Gully Creek
• Sideling Hill Creek
• Town Creek (formerly Oldtown Creek)
• Wills Creek

• Aberdeen Creek
• Aisquith Creek
• Almshouse Creek
• Back Creek
• Barley Creek
• Beards Creek (named for Beard Family of Davidsonville)

• Blackhole Creek
• Blackwalnut Creek
• Bodkin Creek
• Brewers Creek
• Broad Creek
• Broadwater Creek
• Cabin Creek
• Cadle Creek
• Carrs Creek
• Cat Branch Creek
• Cattail Creek
• Chase Creek (named for Samuel Chase (1741-1811), a Maryland signer of Declaration of Independence)
• Cheston Creek
• Church Creek
• Clements Creek
• Cockey Creek

College Creek

Cornfield Creek

Cox Creek

Crab Creek

Cross Creek

Curtis Creek (from tract "Curtis Neck" patented 1663)

Cypress Creek

• Deep Creek
• Dividing Creek
• Dorseys Creek
• Duvall Creek
• Fishing Creek
• Fords Creek (Upper West River)

• Forked Creek
• Furnace Creek
• Gales Creek
• Gingerville Creek
• Glebe Creek
• Graveyard Creek
• Grays Creek
• Harness Creek
• Herring Creek
• Holly Creek
• Lerch Creek (formerly Deep Creek)
• Little Round Bay Creek
• Lone House Creek
• Luce Creek
• Lyons Creek
• Main Creek
• Marley Creek
• Meredith Creek
• Mill Creek
• Muddy Creek
• Nabbs Creek
• Old Man Creek
• Oyster Creek
• Parish Creek
• Park Creek
• Parker Creek
• Plum Creek
• Popham Creek (formerly Lane Creek)
• Ridout Creek
• Rock Creek
• Rockhold Creek
• Saltworks Creek

Sawmill Creek

Scaffold Creek

Sellman Creek

Shorts Creek

South Creek

Spa Creek (formerly Todds Creek)

• Stoney Creek
• Swan Creek
• Tenthouse Creek
• Tracy Creek
• Valentine Creek

• Weems Creek
• Wharf Creek
• Whitehall Creek
• Whitemarsh Creek
• Yant Creek

• Colgate Creek
• Gorsuch Creek
• Jones Falls

• Armstrong Creek
• Bear Creek
• Beaver Dam Creek
• Bread and Cheese Creek

Long Green Creek, Glen Arm (Baltimore County), Maryland, April 2015. Photo by Sarah A. Hanks.

• Browns Creek
• Buffalo Creek
• Bullneck Creek
• Chink Creek
• Dark Head Creek
• Deep Creek
• Deer Creek
• Dulaney Creek
• Dundee Creek
• Frog Mortar Creek
• Galloway Creek
• Georges Creek
• Greys Creek
• Gwynns Falls Creek
• Hogpen Creek
• Hopkins Creek
• Humphrey Creek
• Jones Creek
• Jones Falls
• Little Falls
• Long Green Creek
• Marsh Creek
• Muddy Gut
• Norman Creek
• North Point Creek
• Northeast Creek
• Peachorchard Creek
• Piney Creek
• Priceville Creek
• Red House Creek
• Saltpeter Creek
• Seneca Creek
• Shallow Creek
• Stansbury Creek
• Strawberry Creek
• Sue Creek

Back Creek

Battle Creek (Cypress Swamp) (named by Robert Brooke for his wife, Mary Baker, whose family came from Battle, England, which was named for Battle Abbey, founded to remember Battle of Hastings)

Ben Creek

Buzzard Island Creek

Chew Creek

Cocktown Creek

Fishing Creek

• Hall Creek
• Hellen Creek
• Hellen Gut
• Hunting Creek (formerly Chingaware Creek)
• Island Creek
• Little Lyons Creek
• Lyons Creek
• Mears Creek
• Mill Creek
• Parker Creek
• Plum Point Creek
• Ramsey Creek
• Rock Creek
• St. John Creek
• St. Leonard Creek

• Bell Creek
• Crowberry Creek
• Deep Creek
• Fowling Creek
• Hay Creek
• Herring Creek
• Hog Creek
• Marsh Creek
• Marshyhope Creek
• Mill Creek
• Robins Creek
• Skelton Creek
• Spring Creek
• Tub Mill Creek
• Tuckahoe Creek
• Upper Hunting Creek
• Watts Creek

• Alloway Creek
• Avondale Creek (named for village of Avondale, where creek begins)
• Big Pipe Creek
• Double Pipe Creek
• Little Pipe Creek
• Little Run Creek
• Muddy Creek
• Piney Creek
• Pipe Creek
• Sams Creek

• Back Creek
• Big Elk Creek
• Burkalow Creek (named for Herman Van Burkelow, a Labadist)
• Cabin John Creek
• Christiana Creek
• Church Creek
• Conowingo Creek (from Iroquois word meaning "at the rapids")
• Duffy Creek
• Great Bohemia Creek
• Little Bohemia Creek
• Little Elk Creek
• Little Northeast Creek
• Mill Creek
• Northeast Creek
• Octoraro Creek (from Iroquois word meaning "rushing waters")
• Pearce Creek
• Perch Creek
• Piney Creek
• Plum Creek
• Pond Creek
• Popemetan Creek
• Principio Creek (formerly Back Creek)
• Scotchman Creek

• Avon Creek
• Beaverdam Creek
• Boot Creek
• Budd Creek
• Burgess Creek
• Charleston Creek
• Chicamuxen Creek
• Cuckold Creek
• Devil Nest Creek
• Dolly Boarmans Creek
• Fenwick Creek
• Goose Creek
• Hatton Creek
• Hilltop Fork
• Indian Creek
• Kings Creek
• Little Creek
• Mallows Creek
• Mattawoman Creek
• Mill Run
• Mill Swamp
• Nanjemoy Creek
• Piccowaxen Creek
• Pomonkey Creek
• Popes Creek
• Port Tobacco Creek
• St. Thomas Creek
• Swansons Creek

• Back Creek
• Backgarden Creek
• Barron Creek
• Beaverdam Creek
• Beckwith Creek
• Blackwater Creek
• Blinthorn Creek
• Brooks Creek
• Cabin Creek
• Carey Creek
• Cedar Creek
• Chapel Creek
• Charles Creek
• Chicone Creek (from Algonquian (Powhatan) words meaning "big snow")
• Church Creek
• Clay Island Creek
• Covey Creek
• Cow Creek
• Davis Creek
• Dunnock Slough
• Far Creek
• Farm Creek
• Fishing Creek
• Fox Creek
• Gales Creek
• Gary Creek
• Goose Creek
• Great Marsh Creek
• Hudson Creek
• Hurst Creek
• Indian Creek
• Island Creek
• Jacks Creek
• Jenkins Creek
• Job Ditch
• Langrells Creek
• Lecompte Creek (named for Anthony LeCompte (c.1620-1673), a Huguenot)
• Lee Creek
• Long Creek
• Lower Hunting Creek
• Marshyhope Creek (means "region of marshes")
• Meekin Creek
• Owens Creek
• Oyster Shell Creek
• Parsons Creek
• Phillips Creek
• Pokata Creek
• Punch Island Creek
• Raccoon Creek
• St. John Creek
• Scotland Creek
• Secretary Creek
• Shoal Creek
• Slaughter Creek
• Tedious Creek
• Teram Creek
• Thornfare Creek
• Thorofare Creek
• Transquaking Creek
• Upper Hunting Creek
• Wallace Creek
• Watts Creek
• Whitehall Creek
• Woolford Creek
• Worlds End Creek

• Ballanger Creek
• Beaverdam Creek
• Bennett Creek
• Bens Creek
• Big Hunting Creek
• Bush Creek
• Carroll Creek
• Catoctin Creek
• Dollyhyde Creek
• Fishing Creek
• Flat Creek
• Fork of Owens Creek
• Friends Creek
• Furnace Creek
• Glade Creek
• Israel Creek
• Linganore Creek
• Little Bennett Creek
• Little Catoctin Creek
• Little Fishing Creek
• Little Hunting Creek
• Little Pipe Creek
• Little Tuscarora Creek
• Marsh Creek
• Middle Creek
• Muddy Creek
• North Fork Creek
• Owens Creek
• Rock Creek
• Sams Creek
• South Tuscarora Creek
• Stony Creek
• Toms Creek
• Turkeys Creek
• Tuscarora Creek

Bear Creek

Beaver Creek

Cherry Creek

Church Creek

Crabtree Creek

Deep Creek (formerly Green Glades Creek)

Fork Creek

Georges Creek (formerly Lonaconin Creek)

Herrington Creek

Middle Fork Creek

Muddy Creek

• North Fork Creek
• Rhine Creek
• Snowy Creek
• South Fork Crabtree Creek
• South Fork Creek

• Big Branch Creek
• Black Hawk Spring
• Boone Creek
• Broad Creek
• Bush Creek
• Canal Creek
• Church Creek
• Cooper Creek
• Deep Creek
• Deer Creek
• Gasheys Creek
• Graveyard Creek
• Island Branch Creek
• Jackson Creek
• Kings Creek
• Lauderick Creek
• Little Deer Creek
• Monks Creek
• Mosquito Creek
• Otter Point Creek
• Reardon Inlet
• Romney Creek
• Swaderick Creek
• Swan Creek
• Watson Creek
• Wright Creek

• Cattail Creek
• Deep Creek

• Broad Creek
• Browns Creek
• Bungay Creek
• Church Creek
• Churn Creek
• Comegy Bight Creek
• Davis Creek
• Durdin Creek
• Dyer Creek
• Fairlee Creek
• Freeman Creek
• Grays Inn Creek
• Hail Creek
• Herringtown Creek
• Huntingfield Creek
• Island Creek
• Jacobs Creek
• Jarrett Creek
• Kings Creek
• Langford Creek
• Lloyd Creek
• Mill Creek
• Morgan Creek
• Philip Creek
• Radcliff Creek
• Rock Hall Creek
• Saw Mill Creek
• Shippen Creek
• Shipyard Creek
• Skipper Creek
• Still Pond Creek
• Swan Creek
• Swantown Creek
• Tavern Creek
• Turner Creek (named for John Turner)
• Worton Creek

• Bennett Creek
• Cabin John Creek
• Dry Seneca Creek
• Goshen Creek
• Great Seneca Creek
• Gunner Creek
• Little Seneca Creek
• Long Draught Creek
• Mill Creek
• Rock Creek
• Seneca Creek
• Sopers Creek
• Tenmile Creek
• Wild Cat Creek

• Beaver Dam Creek
• Black Swamp Creek
• Broad Creek
• Henson Creek
• Indian Creek
• Isidoras Creek
• Little Point Creek
• Mattaponi Creek
• Mattawoman Creek
• Oxon Creek
• Parker Creek
• Piscataway Creek
• Rock Creek
• Swan Creek
• Swansons Creek
• Tinkers Creek

• Beaver Dam Creek
• Bloody Point Creek
• Broad Creek
• Cabin Creek
• Carter Creek
• Corsica Creek
• Cox Creek
• Crab Alley Creek
• Craney Creek
• Emory Creek
• Goodhands Creek
• Granary Creek
• Greenwood Creek
• Grove Creek
• Hambleton Creek
• Hoghole Creek
• Island Creek
• Jackson Creek
• Kirwan Creek
• Long Point Creek
• Losquito Creek
• Macum Creek
• Marshy Creek
• Muddy Creek
• Norwich Creek
• Pearl Creek
• Piney Creek
• Queenstown Creek
• Reed Creek
• Rosten Creek
• Shipping Creek
• Southeast Creek
• Tanners Creek
• Thompson Creek
• Tilghman Creek
• Tolson Creek
• Tuckahoe Creek (from Algonquian word for "sassafras root")
• Walsey Creek
• Warehouse Creek (encircles land which held 17th century warehouse)
• Winchester Creek

ST. MARY'S COUNTY

• Blake Creek
• Boston Creek
• Bramleigh Creek
• Briscoe Creek
• Budd Creek
• Burnt Mill Creek
• Calvert Creek
• Canoe Neck Creek
• Carthagena Creek (named for Cartagena, Colombia, which Admiral Edward Vernon besieged & then lost in 1741)
• Cat Creek
• Cecil Creek
• Chaptico Creek
• Cherry Cove Creek
• Cole Creek
• Combs Creek
• Cooper Creek
• Cremona Creek
• Cuckold Creek
• Deep Creek
• Flood Creek
• Harper Creek
• Harry James Creek
• Herring Creek
• Horse Landing Creek
• Indian Creek
• Island Creek
• Manahowic Creek
• Miley Creek
• Mill Creek
• Mud Creek
• Nat Creek
• Parson Creek
• Patter Creek
• Persimmon Creek
• Point Lookout Creek
• Poplar Hill Creek
• Potter Creek
• Price Creek
• Roslin Creek
• St. Clements Creek
• St. George Creek
• St. Inigoes Creek
• St. James Creek
• St. Jerome Creek
• St. John Creek
• St. Patricks Creek
• St. Thomas Creek
• Second Creek
• Smith Creek (formerly Trinity Creek)
• Spring Creek
• Tanner Creek
• Thomas Creek
• Tomakokin Creek
• Town Creek
• Trent Hall Creek
• Washington Creek
• White Neck Creek

• Acre Creek
• Ape Hole Creek
• Back Creek
• Barnes Landing Creek
• Big Monie Creek
• Broad Creek
• Coulbourn Creek (named for William Coulbourne (C. 1630-1690))
• Dames Quarter Creek
• Dividing Creek (separates Somerset County from Dorchester County)
• Dougherty Creek
• East Creek
• Fishing Creek
• Gales Creek
• Geanquakin Creek
• Goose Creek
• Gunby Creek
• Hall Creek
• Horse Creek
• Indian Creek
• Jenkins Creek
• Joes Ridge Creek
• Johnson Creek
• Jones Creek
• Juggling Creek
• Kings Creek
• Levering Creek
• Lindian Creek
• Little Creek
• Little Monie Creek
• Marumsco Creek (from Algonquian word meaning "where there is a stone of some kind")
• Middle Creek
• Mine Creek
• Monie Creek
• Muddy Creek
• Otter Creek
• Oyster Creek
• Passerdyke Creek
• Pigeonhouse Creek
• Price Creek
• Pungers Creek
• Rock Creek
• St. Peters Creek
• Shanks Creek
• Smith Gut
• Somerset Creek
• Teague Creek
• Tyler Creek
• Wellridge Creek
• West Creek
• Wolftrap Creek

• Back Creek
• Ball Creek
• Barker Creek
• Black Creek
• Bloody Point Creek
• Bolingbroke Creek
• Boone Creek (named for John Boone)
• Briary Creek
• Bridge Creek
• Broad Creek
• Crosiadore Creek
• Cummings Creek
• Dixon Creek
• Edge Creek (named for James Edge (c. 1710-1757))
• Farhole Creek
• Fox Hole Creek
• Front Creek
• Glebe Creek
• Goldsborough Creek
• Grace Creek
• Gross Creek
• Hambleton Creek
• Harris Creek (named for William Harris (1641-1694) of Calvert County)
• Hunting Creek
• Irish Creek
• Island Creek
• Kings Creek
• La Trappe Creek
• Leadenham Creek
• Leeds Creek (named for John Leeds, Jr. (1665-1750))
• Little Creek
• Lloyd Creek
• Longhaul Creek
• Maxmore Creek
• Mill Creek
• Mud Creek
• Muddy Creek
• Newcomb Creek
• Norwich Creek
• Oak Creek
• Peachblossom Creek (named for George Robins' peach tree orchard (after 1670) first planted in Talbot)
• Pickering Creek (formerly Long Tom Creek; named for Francis Pickering)
• Plaindealing Creek (named for tract, "Plain Dealing," surveyed for Joseph Winslow, 1655)
• Porpoise Creek
• Porter Creek
• Potts Mill Creek
• Raccoon Creek
• Reeds Creek
• San Domingo Creek
• Skipton Creek
• Solitude Creek
• Spencer Creek
• Tar Creek
• Tilghman Creek
• Town Creek
• Trippe Creek
• Tuckahoe Creek
• Williams Creek
• Woodland Creek
• Wootenaux Creek

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• Antietam Creek (from Algonquian word meaning "swift waters")
• Bear Creek
• Beaver Creek
• Conococheague Creek
• Great Tonoloway Creek
• Grove Creek

• Israel Creek
• Licking Creek
• Little Antietam Creek
• Little Beaver Creek
• Little Conococheague Creek
• Little Tonoloway Creek
• Sideling Hill Creek
• Tonoloway Creek

• Barren Creek
• Beaverdam Creek
• Blackwater Creek
• Broad Creek
• Collins Gut
• Cutmaptico Creek (from Algonquian word meaning "big creek")
• Dashiell's Creek
• Dennis Creek
• Dividing Creek
• Dung Creek
• Grimes Creek
• Horsebridge Creek
• Hutton Creek
• Manahowic Creek
• Morumsco Creek
• Nassawango Creek
• Passerdyke Creek (from Algonquian word meaning "stream that scoops banks")
• Peters Creek
• Plum Creek
• Quantico Creek
• Renonco Creek
• Rewastico Creek
• Robins Creek
• Rockawalking Creek
• South Prong Creek
• Tonytank Creek
• Tyaskin Creek
• Wetipquin Creek
• Windsor Creek

• Assateague Creek
• Ayer Creek
• Back Creek
• Bassett Creek (named for Benjamin Bassett's Mill c. 1800)
• Beaverdam Creek
• Boxiron Creek
• Corkers Creek
• Dividing Creek
• Grey Creek
• Harry Creek
• Herring Creek
• Holland Creek
• Manklin Creek
• Marshall Creek
• Mud Creek
• Nassawango Creek
• Newport Creek
• Ninepin Bridge Creek
• Pawpaw Creek (named for Pawpaw fruit trees (Asimina triloba) that grow in area)
• Peeks Creek
• Perkins Creek
• Pikes Creek
• Queponco Creek
• Robins Creek
• Roy Creek
• Scarboro Creek
• Sturges Creek
• Swanscut Creek
• Tanhouse Creek
• Trappe Creek
• Turville Creek
• Wagram Creek
• Waterworks Creek
• Windmill Creek
• Zippy Creek

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