Penns Creek
Penns Creek is a 67.1-mile-long tributary of the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania in the United States. The creek was called the Kaarondinhah by the Iroquois who were in possession of the Susquehanna Valley from the mid-17th to the mid-18th centuries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: River
- Description: tributary of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Big Mahany Creek”, “John Penn’s Creek”, “Kaarondinhah”, “Kayarondinagh”, “Kayarondinhagh”, “Mahanoy”, “Mahoney”, “Mister Penn’s Creek”, “Penn Creek”, “Penn’s Creek”, and “Pennsylvania Creek”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Selinsgrove Speedway and Selinsgrove Hall and Seibert Hall.
Selinsgrove Speedway
Sports venue
Selinsgrove Speedway is a 0.5 mi high-banked clay dirt oval south of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Website Speedway History…
Selinsgrove Hall and Seibert Hall
University building
Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.
Selinsgrove Hall and Seibert Hall are two historic, educational buildings that are located on the campus of Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove in Snyder County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Gov. Simon Snyder Mansion
Building
Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.
The Gov. Simon Snyder Mansion is an historic, American home that is located in Selinsgrove in Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The home of the third Governor of Pennsylvania, Simon Snyder, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Selinsgrove and Freeburg.
Selinsgrove
Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.
Selinsgrove is the largest borough in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population is estimated to be 5,761 for the 2020 Census. Selinsgrove is geographically located in the middle of the Susquehanna River Valley in Central Pennsylvania, along U.S. Routes 11 and 15, 45 miles north of Harrisburg and 5.7 miles southwest of Sunbury.
Freeburg
Village
Photo: Ruhrfisch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Freeburg is a borough in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 557 at the 2020 census.
Dornsife
Hamlet
Dornsife is a populated place in Little Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States, with a ZIP code of 17823. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the ZIP Code Tabulation Area had a population of 1,273, with a median age of 41.9.
Penns Creek
- Categories: stream and body of water
- Location: Centre County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.76822° or 40° 46′ 6″ northLongitude
-76.86222° or 76° 51′ 44″ westElevation
407 feet (124 metres)Open location code
87G5Q49Q+74OpenStreetMap ID
way 5111941OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=riverGeoNames ID
5205474Wikidata ID
Q7163491
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Chinese—“Penns Creek” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Penns Creek”
- Chinese: “佩恩溪”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Penns Creek”. Photo: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0.