Mill Creek (Philadelphia) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Mill Creek
The bowl in Clark Park was once a mill pond fed by Mill Creek
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
Physical characteristics
Main source	Narbeth Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
River mouth	Schuylkill River 39°56′35″N 75°12′20″W / 39.943047°N 75.2056826°W / 39.943047; -75.2056826

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 Narbeth, 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 a neighborhood in Philadelphia that it flows under.

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  Mill Creek Sewer, ca. 1883, at 47th Street and Haverford Avenue in West Philadelphia. The effort to encapsulate and bury Mill Creek in a 21-foot (6.4 m) sewer pipe ran from 1869 to 1894.