Wyomissing Creek
Wyomissing Creek is a 9.1-mile-long (14.6 km)[1] tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Wyomissing Creek joins the Schuylkill River at the boundary of West Reading Borough and the City of Reading, Pennsylvania.
Wyomissing is a name derived from a Native American language purported to mean "place of flats".[2]
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- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-04-05 at WebCite, accessed April 1, 2011
- ^ Wagner, A. E.; Balthaser, Francis Wilhauer; Hoch, D. K. (1913). The Story of Berks County (Pennsylvania). Eagle Book and Job Press. p. 28.
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Coordinates: 40°19′46″N 75°56′19″W / 40.32946°N 75.93871°W
Categories:
- Rivers of Berks County, Pennsylvania
- Rivers of Pennsylvania
- Tributaries of the Schuylkill River
- Berks County, Pennsylvania geography stubs
- Pennsylvania river stubs