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Fishing Creek (Blackbird Creek tributary)

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Fishing Creek drains 0.58 square miles (1.5 km) of area, receives about 43.3 in/year of precipitation, has a
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Fishing Creek rises on the Cedar Swamp divide about 0.5 miles north of
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0.65 cu ft/s (0.018 m/s) at mouth with Blackbird Creek
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is a 2.19 mi (3.52 km) long 1st order tributary to
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Location of Fishing Creek mouth
Location of Fishing Creek mouth
Taylors Bridge, Delaware
39°24′49″N 075°35′18″W / 39.41361°N 75.58833°W / 39.41361; -75.58833
Mouth
Blackbird Creek
39°25′44″N 075°35′50″W / 39.42889°N 75.59722°W / 39.42889; -75.59722
Blackbird Creek
Delaware Bay
Atlantic Ocean
River system
Blackbird Creek
Blackbird Creek
New Castle County, Delaware
Taylors Bridge
New Castle County, Delaware
topographic wetness index
List of rivers of Delaware


"GNIS Detail - Fishing Creek"



"Blackbird Creek Topo Map, New Castle County DE (Taylors Bridge Area)"
"ArcGIS Web Application"



"Fishing Creek Watershed Report"

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