Stoney Creek (Delaware)

Stoney Creek is a 2.76 mi (4.44 km) long second order tributary to the Delaware River in New Castle County, Delaware.

Stony Creek
Tributary to Delaware River
Stenkill Falls along Stony Creek
Location of Stony Creek mouth
Location of Stony Creek mouth
Location of Stony Creek Mouth
Location of Stony Creek mouth
Location of Stony Creek mouth
Stoney Creek (Delaware) (the United States)
Location
CountryUnited States
StateDelaware
CountyNew Castle
Stony Creek in the winter of 2019
Physical characteristics
SourcePerkins Run divide
 • locationWestwood, Delaware
 • coordinates39°48′18″N 075°30′07″W[1]
 • elevation340 ft (100 m)[2]
MouthDelaware River
 • location
Bellevue, Delaware
 • coordinates
39°46′26″N 075°28′48″W[1]
 • elevation
0 ft (0 m)[2]
Length4.7 mi (7.6 km)[3]
Basin size2.36 square miles (6.1 km2)[4]
Discharge 
 • average3.37 cu ft/s (0.095 m3/s) at mouth with Stenkil Creek[4]
Basin features
Progressionsoutheast
River systemDelaware River
Tributaries 
 • leftFox Run (Delaware) (Flows through Forwood Preserve), Jacksons Creek (Delaware) (Meets Stony Creek in Carcroft Crest Park, Boulder Run (Delaware) flows through Bellevue State Park.
 • rightKallved Creek (Delaware) Name has Swedish origins, “kall” meaning cold and “ved” meaning wood.
WaterbodiesBellevue Lake
WaterfallsStenkill Falls and Tukohtene Falls
BridgesMarsh Road (Delaware Route 3)
Veale Road
Silverside Road
I-95
Carr Road
Philadelphia Pike
US 13
I-495

Variant names

According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as:[1][5]

  • Fransens Creek
  • Oele Fransens Creek
  • Tukohtene Creek
  • Quarry Creek
  • Quarryville Creek
  • Stenkill Creek
  • Stony Creek

Course and dam

Stoney Creek rises on the Perkins Run divide in Westwoods in New Castle County, Delaware and flows southeast to mouth at the Delaware River just north of Fox Point State Park.[2] It passes through in Bellevue State Park.[6] Tukohtene Falls (Lenape for round mountain) is a ten-foot waterfall located in the park.

Bellevue Lake is a reservoir created by the impounding of Stoney Creek in 1936.[7] it has a capacity of 100 millions gallons of water.[8] Bellevue Lake is a remnant of the Old Bellevue Quarry,[9] which was allowed to fill.[10] (The harvested stone was used to build the Delaware Breakwater[11]) It is 0.2 miles (0.32 km) miles across[12] and covers 11 acres (4.5 ha). The reservoir supplied the Wilmington and Suburban Water Comopany, which was founded in 1933 and has since absorbed into Suez Water.[13]

  • Boulder Run entering Bellevue Lake
    Boulder Run entering Bellevue Lake
  • Bellevue Lake Dam
    Bellevue Lake Dam

Watershed

Stony Creek has a stream segment length of 1 km. Its watershed drains 2.36 square miles (6.1 km2) of area, receives about 46.8 inches (119 cm) of precipitation per year and 24 inches of snow annually. It has a topographic wetness index of 475.50, is about 17.6% forested, and a mean temperature of 12.5 °C (54.5 °F). Located in the deciduous and mixed forests. It is one of four major streams that empty into the Delaware River from the Piedmont in Delaware, the others are Shellpot Creek, Perkins Run and Naamans Creek.[4]

Images
  • Tukohtene Falls
    Tukohtene Falls
  • Stony Creek (February 2019)
    Stony Creek (February 2019)
  • Stenkill Falls
    Stenkill Falls
  • Stenkill Falls flooded
    Stenkill Falls flooded
  • Near Allen Tract Park
    Near Allen Tract Park
  • Rocks in Carcroft Crest Park
    Rocks in Carcroft Crest Park

See also

References
  1. "GNIS Detail - Stenkil Creek". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  2. "Stony Creek Topo Map, New Castle County DE (Marcus Hook Area)". TopoZone. Locality, LLC. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  3. "ArcGIS Web Application". epa.maps.arcgis.com. US EPA. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  4. "Stony Creek Watershed Report". Waters Geoviewer. US EPA. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  6. Parks, Delaware State. "Bellevue". Delaware State Parks.
  7. Engineers, United States Army Corps of (March 31, 1975). "National program of inspection of dams". [Department of Defense], Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of Engineers – via Google Books.
  8. William Charles Rasmussen, John W. Odell, Norman Howard Beamer (1966), Delaware Water Geological Survey (water-supply paper), U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. Federal Writers' Project (2013), The WPA Guide to Delaware: The First State, Trinity University Press (reprint), p. 324, ISBN 9781595342072
  10. Dunlap, Gertrude F. (April 30, 1992). Fox Point Remembered: Early Development in New Castle, Delaware. DIANE Publishing. ISBN 9780941375498 – via Google Books.
  11. "Memories of Fox Point Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
  12. L. W. HECK, A. J. WRAIGHT, D. J. ORTH, J. R. CARTER, L. G. VAN WINKLE, and JANET HAZEN (1966). Delaware Place Names (PDF). Geological Survey Bulletin 1245 (Report). Government Printing Office (U.S.A.). p. 14.{{cite report}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. "Local projects". Suez. Retrieved March 30, 2022.


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