MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

WATERWAYS

CREEKS

[photo, Great Blue Heron, College Creek, Annapolis, Maryland]

For any state, bays and rivers obviously are significant. In Maryland, however, creeks too become especially important for some are the size of rivers. More notably, these tributaries contribute to the geographic and geologic consistency of the Chesapeake Bay, and are equally effected in return.

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

[photo, Little Hunting Creek, Thurmont, Maryland]

By definition, a creek is a natural stream of water, normally smaller than, and often tributary to a river. Often, creek waters flow directly into Chesapeake Bay, or merge with other Bay tributaries, such as the Patapsco, the Patuxent, and the Potomac rivers.

Little Hunting Creek, Thurmont, Maryland, January 2006. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Maryland possesses one of the most notable creeks in the nation - Antietam Creek. There, during the Civil War, on September 17, 1862, after twelve hours of fighting along its banks, approximately 23,000 soldiers were dead, wounded, or missing - the single bloodiest day of battle in American history.

Today, Maryland's creeks predominately are used for recreation, though some have been transformed into nature reserves. Recreational creeks may be found within national, State, and local parks. Chicamuxen Creek in Queen Anne's County, and Tuckahoe Creek in Talbot County, for example, both are located in State parks, while Antietam Creek passes through Antietam National Battlefield Park.

ALLEGANY COUNTY

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

[photo, Sailboats at piers, Back Creek, Annapolis, Maryland]

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY

Aberdeen Creek
Aisquith Creek
Almshouse Creek
Back Creek
Barley Creek
Beards Creek

Sailboats, Back Creek, Annapolis, Maryland, October 2008. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

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
Cheston Creek
Church Creek
Clements Creek
Cockey Creek

College Creek

Cornfield Creek

Cox Creek

Crab Creek

Cross Creek

Curtis Creek

Cypress Creek

Crew team on College Creek, Annapolis, Maryland, April 2000. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Deep Creek
Dividing Creek
Dorseys Creek
Duvall Creek
Fishing Creek
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

[photo, Early morning at Stoney Creek, Pasadena, Maryland]

Nabbs Creek
Old Man Creek
Oyster Creek
Parish Creek
Park Creek
Parker Creek
Plum Creek
Popham Creek (formerly Lane Creek)

Early morning at Stoney Creek, Pasadena, Maryland, June 2000. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

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

BALTIMORE CITY

Colgate Creek
Gorsuch Creek
Jones Falls

BALTIMORE COUNTY

Bear Creek
Beaver Dam Creek
Bread and Cheese Creek
Browns Creeks
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

CALVERT COUNTY

Back Creek

Battle Creek

Ben Creek

Buzzard Island Creek

Chew Creek

Cocktown Creek

Fishing Creek

Sailboats docked on St. Leonard Creek, Calvert County, Maryland, May 2002. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

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

CAROLINE COUNTY

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

CARROLL COUNTY

Alloway Creek
Avondale Creek
Big Pipe Creek
Double Pipe Creek
Little Pipe Creek
Little Run Creek
Muddy Creek
Piney Creek
Pipe Creek
Sams Creek

CECIL COUNTY

Back Creek
Big Elk Creek
Cabin John Creek
Christiana Creek
Church Creek
Conowingo Creek
Duffy Creek
Great Bohemia Creek
Little Bohemia Creek
Little Elk Creek
Little Northeast Creek
Mill Creek
Northeast Creek
Octoraro Creek
Pearce Creek
Perch Creek
Piney Creek
Plum Creek
Pond Creek
Popemetan Creek
Principio Creek (formerly Back Creek)
Scotchman Creek

CHARLES COUNTY

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

DORCHESTER COUNTY

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
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
Lee Creek
Long Creek
Lower Hunting Creek
Marshyhope Creek
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

FREDERICK COUNTY

Ballanger Creek
Beaverdam Creek
Bennetts Creek
Bens Creek
Bush Creek
Carroll Creek
Catoctin Creek
Dollyhyde Creek
Fishing Creek
Flat Creek
Fork of Owens Creek
Friends Creek
Furnace Creek
Glade Creek
Hunting 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

GARRETT COUNTY

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

HARFORD COUNTY

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

HOWARD COUNTY

Cattail Creek
Deep Creek

KENT COUNTY

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
Worton Creek

MONTGOMERY COUNTY

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

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY

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

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY

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
Walsey Creek
Warehouse Creek
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
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

SOMERSET COUNTY

Acre Creek
Ape Hole Creek
Back Creek
Barnes Landing Creek
Big Monie Creek
Broad Creek
Coulbourn Creek
Dames Quarter Creek
Dividing Creek
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
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

TALBOT COUNTY

Back Creek
Ball Creek
Barker Creek
Black Creek
Bloody Point Creek
Bolingbroke Creek
Boone Creek
Briary Creek
Bridge Creek
Broad Creek
Crosiadore Creek
Cummings Creek
Dixon Creek
Edge Creek
Farhole Creek
Fox Hole Creek
Front Creek
Glebe Creek
Goldsborough Creek
Grace Creek
Gross Creek
Hambleton Creek
Harris Creek
Hunting Creek
Irish Creek
Island Creek
Kings Creek
La Trappe Creek
Leadenham Creek
Leeds Creek
Little Creek
Lloyd Creek
Longhaul Creek
Maxmore Creek
Mill Creek
Mud Creek
Muddy Creek
Newcomb Creek
Norwich Creek
Oak Creek
Peachblossom Creek
Pickering Creek
Plaindealing Creek
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

WASHINGTON COUNTY

Antietam Creek
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

WICOMICO COUNTY

Barren Creek
Beaverdam Creek
Blackwater Creek
Broad Creek
Collins Gut
Cutmaptico Creek
Dashiell's Creek
Dennis Creek
Dividing Creek
Dung Creek
Grimes Creek
Horsebridge Creek
Hutton Creek
Manahowic Creek
Morumsco Creek
Nassawango Creek
Passerdyke Creek
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

WORCESTER COUNTY

Assateague Creek
Ayer Creek
Back Creek
Bassett Creek
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
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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