Toms Creek (Monocacy River tributary) facts for kids
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Monocacy River watershed
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| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania, Maryland |
| Counties | Adams, Frederick |
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| River mouth | Monocacy River |
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| Namesakes | Toms Creek Hundred |
Toms Creek is a 20.8-mile-long (33.5 km) tributary of the Monocacy River in Pennsylvania and Maryland in the United States. Via the Monocacy River, it is part of the Potomac River watershed, flowing to Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
The creek rises on South Mountain in southwestern Adams County, Pennsylvania, and flows south, then southeast, through Iron Springs and Carroll Valley, Pennsylvania, and past Emmitsburg, Maryland.
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| Perennial flow | 39°47′41″N 77°26′46″W / 39.79466°N 77.44608°W | ||||
| Bridge | 1836 roadway bridge | ||||
| Populated place | Maria Furnace | ||||
| Bridge | 1888 B&H RR (replaced 1912 by the Auburn Shale Brick Company of Gettysburg) | 39°46′21″N 77°24′35″W / 39.772485°N 77.409848°W | |||
| Bridge | covered Burr arch | 39°46′1″N 77°23′13″W / 39.76694°N 77.38694°W | |||
| Confluence | Miney Branch | 39°44′10″N 77°22′07″W / 39.73615°N 77.36874°W | |||
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| Confluence | Middle Creek | ||||
| Mouth | Monocacy River | ||||
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