West Creek (Pennsylvania)

West Creek
West Creek on the outskirts of Benton, looking upstream
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Huckleberry Mountain in Davidson Township, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania
• elevation	between 1,780 and 1,800 feet (540 and 550 m)
Mouth
• location	Fishing Creek in Benton Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
• elevation	735 ft (224 m)
Length	9.1 mi (14.6 km)
Basin size	17.2 sq mi (45 km2)
Discharge
• average	typically less than 2 m3/s or 71 cu ft/s
Basin features
Progression	Fishing Creek → Susquehanna River → Chesapeake Bay
Tributaries
• right	York Hollow, Spencer Run

West Creek is a tributary of Fishing Creek, in Columbia County and Sullivan County, in Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is 9.1 miles (14.6 km) long and flows through Davidson Township in Sullivan County and Jackson Township, Sugarloaf Township, Benton Township, and Benton in Columbia County.^[1] The water temperature of the creek ranges from 0 °C (32 °F) to 25 °C (77 °F). The discharge ranges from nearly zero to ten cubic meters per second (0 to 353 cu ft/s). Rock formations in the watershed include the Trimmers Rock Formation, the Catskill Formation, and the Huntley Mountain Formation. The creek's watershed has an area of 16.6 square miles (43 km²), most of which is agricultural, forested, or urban land. A small number of dams, mills, and schoolhouses were built on West Creek in the 19th and early 20th century. West Creek has the highest level of biodiversity of any stream in the upper Fishing Creek watershed.