| 词条 | Chiques Creek |
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| name = Chiques Creek | image = Kauffman's Distillery Covered Bridge Side View 3000px.jpg | image_caption = Kauffman's Distillery Covered Bridge spans Chiques Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania | source1_location = Mount Gretna Heights, Pennsylvania | mouth_location = Susquehanna River at Marietta, Pennsylvania | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = Lebanon and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, United States | length = {{convert|31.6|mi}} | source1_elevation = {{convert|1100|ft}} | mouth_elevation = {{convert|230|ft}} | discharge1_avg = | basin_size = {{convert|126|sqmi}} }} Chiques Creek (known as Chickies Creek until 2002) is a {{convert|31.6|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}[1] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Lebanon and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania in the United States. The source is at an elevation of {{convert|1100|ft}} near Mount Gretna Heights in Lebanon County. The mouth is the confluence with the Susquehanna River at an elevation of {{convert|230|ft}} at Marietta in Lancaster County.[2] NameThe name of the creek comes from the Lenape Chiquesalunga, meaning "place of crayfish".[3] The United States Geological Survey Board on Geographic Names has made three official decisions on the name of the creek, deciding it was Chickies Creek in 1896 and 1916 before changing it to Chiques Creek in 2002. The USGS Geographic Names Information System recognizes the following thirteen variant names for the creek: Big Chickies Creek, Big Chiques Creek, Big Chiquesalunga Creek, Chickesalapga Creek, Chickeswalungo Creek, Chickies Creek, Chickisalungo Creek, Chicques Creek, Chikiswalunga Creek, Chikiswalungo Creek, Chiquasatunga Creek, Chiquesatonga Creek, and Chiquesatunga Creek.[4] Course and watershedChiques Creek flows generally south for its entire course. The Chickies Creek watershed has a total area of {{convert|126|sqmi}} and is part of the larger Chesapeake Bay drainage basin. Chiques Creek's major tributary is Little Chiques Creek, entering roughly one mile upstream its mouth. (hence the variant names with Big in them for the main creek).[5] Covered bridgesFive covered bridges cross the creek in Lancaster County:
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References1. ^U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map {{webarchive |url=https://www.webcitation.org/66gupqQDM?url=http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |date=2012-04-05 }}, accessed August 8, 2011 {{Susquehanna River System}}{{coord|40.12248|-76.45806|type:river_globe:earth_region:US-PA|display=title}}2. ^{{cite book | last = Shaw | first = Lewis C. | others = Prepared in Cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey | title = Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams Part II (Water Resources Bulletin No. 16) | edition = 1st | publisher = Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Resources (no ISBN) | location = Harrisburg, PA}} 3. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.srbc.net/docs/IndianNamesDataChart.PDF | title = Indian Names Data Chart | publisher = Susquehanna River Basin Commission | accessdate = September 4, 2006}} 4. ^{{cite web | work = Geographic Names Information System | publisher = United States Geological Survey | date = August 30, 1990 | url = {{GNIS3|1171772}} | title = Feature Detail Report for: Chiques Creek | accessdate = September 5, 2006}} 5. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.chesapeakebay.net/wspv31/(3fwefm55tzka3q45qloiyxbu)/WspAbout.aspx?basno=254&topic=5 | title = Chesapeake Bay Program: Watershed Profiles: The Chickies Creek - At Marietta Watershed | publisher = Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 10 Severn Avenue, Suite 109, Annapolis, MD 21403 | accessdate = September 3, 2006}} 4 : Rivers of Pennsylvania|Tributaries of the Susquehanna River|Rivers of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Rivers of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania |
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