Unami Creek

Unami Creek is a 16.5-mile-long (26.6 km)[1] tributary of Perkiomen Creek in Lehigh, Bucks, and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania in the United States.[2]

Unami Creek upstream from Sutch Road Bridge in Marlborough Township (Montgomery County).

Unami Creek (named for the Unami people, whose name comes from the Unami /wə̆naːmiːw/)[3] begins in Lower Milford Township, Lehigh County just northwest of the Bucks County border and west of Zionhill, crosses Milford Township and Marlborough Township, and joins Perkiomen Creek near Perkiomenville. It was formerly called Swamp Creek. The name now applies to the current day West Swamp Creek.

Bridges

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
  2. Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
  3. Bright, William (2004). Native American Place Names in the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pg. 531, citing Handbook of North American Indians vol. 15, pp. 236-237
  4. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Dist 6-0 (November 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Sutch Road Bridge in Marlborough Township" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-05-11.
  5. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Dist 6-0 (November 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Swamp Creek Road Bridge" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-05-11.


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