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Dimple Creek (Tohickon Creek tributary)

Coordinates: 40°27′19″N 75°16′36″W / 40.45528°N 75.27667°W / 40.45528; -75.27667
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Dimple Creek
Kimples Creek
Lake Towhee reflection.jpg
Light reflecting off Lake Towhee
pushpin map showing location of Dimple Creek
pushpin map showing location of Dimple Creek
Dimple Creek
Location
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountyBucks
TownshipHaycock
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • coordinates40°30′40″N 75°15′22″W / 40.51111°N 75.25611°W / 40.51111; -75.25611
 • elevation520 feet (160 m)
Mouth 
 • coordinates
40°27′19″N 75°16′36″W / 40.45528°N 75.27667°W / 40.45528; -75.27667
 • elevation
456 feet (139 m)
Length3.89 miles (6.26 km)
Basin size7.33 square miles (19.0 km2)
Basin features
ProgressionDimple Creek → Tohickon CreekDelaware RiverDelaware Bay
River systemDelaware River
LandmarksHaycock Mountain
WaterbodiesLake Towhee
BridgesStoney Garden Road
East Sawmill Road
Deerwood Lane
Roudenbush Road
East Thatcher Road

Dimple Creek (Kimples Creek) is a tributary of the Tohickon Creek in Haycock Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is part of the Delaware River watershed.[1]

Statistics

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Dimple Creek's GNIS identification number is 1173286, its Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources identification number is 03174. It has a watershed of 7.33 square miles (19.0 km2), and meets it confluence at Tohickon Creek's 19.90 river mile. Dimple Creek flows through Lake Towhee.[2][3]

Course

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Dimple Creek rises at an elevation of 520 feet (160 m) in the northern part of Haycock Township from an unnamed pond west northwest of Little Haycock Mountain. Flowing south, it receives a tributary from the left bank, then flows into Lake Towhee a lake formed by a dam in the creek. From there it flows to the southwest to its confluence with the Tohickon at the Levi Sheard Mill at an elevation of 456 feet (139 m). The stream is 3.89 miles (6.26 km), which results in an average slope of 16.45 feet per mile (3.35 meters per kilometer).

Geology

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Dimple Creek lies in an intrusion of magma into the local Brunswick Formation in the Newark Lowland section or rock, part of the Piedmont Province of the Appalchian Highlands Division. About 200 million years ago, about the time of the Jurassic and the Triassic, the magma intruded and cooled to form diabase consisting of labradorite and augite, very highly resistant to erosion.[4]

Crossings and Bridges

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Crossing NBI Number Length Lanes Spans Material/Design Built Reconstructed Latitude Longitude
Stoney Garden Road - - - - - - - - -
East Sawmill Road 7464 7 metres (23 ft) 1 1 Steel stringer/multi-beam or girder 1937 - 40°29'18.5"N 75°15'21.2"W
Deerwood Lane 7449 7 metres (23 ft) 1 1 Steel Stringer/Multi-beam or girder 1971 - 40°29'7.4"N 75°15'36.23"W
Roudenbush Road 7579 9 metres (30 ft) 1 1 Steel stringer/nulti-beam or girder 1930 - 40°28'15.1"N 75°16'3.2"W
East Thatcher Road 7414 17 metres (56 ft) 2 1 Prestressed concrete box beam or girders - single or spread 1972 - 40°27'32.3"N 75°16'33.2"W
Goose paddling in Lake Towhee in the Autumn of 2016.

References

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  1. ^ MacReynolds, George, Place Names in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Doylestown, Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, PA, 1942, P123.
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Deep Run
  3. ^ paGazetteerOfStreams, lycomingedu, p105, I.D. 02561 (PDF)
  4. ^ "Pennsylvania Geological Survey". PaGEODE. Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Archived from the original on April 11, 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2017.