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Stony Creek Lake is a man-made lake built by damming Stony Creek, a tributary of the Clinton River. Stony Creek drains 72 square miles (116 km 2) of northern Oakland County and the lake formed from the dams covers 500 acres (2.0 km 2). Stony Creek Metropark is situated on a moraine which makes for varied landscape. The park has forests, hills ...
Stony Creek is named in local records as early as in 1756. In the Price map of 1808 it is called Rocky Creek. It is a tributary of the Neuse River. [1] It is about 11 miles (18 km) long. The Stoney Creek watershed covers 29.8 square miles (77 km 2) in central Wayne County. [2]
Stony Creek was named for the large amount of rocks and sediments it once washed down from the mountains during floods. Today, most of the sediment is trapped behind Black Butte Dam, a flood-control structure built in 1963. [5] It is labeled on some maps as "Stoney Creek" or "Stone Creek" and was historically known as the Capay River. [6]
What is now Stonycreek Township was settled in 1762. Most old records call it Stony Creek. The Township was incorporated in 1792 from portions of Quemahoning Township as the last of the six original townships of Somerset County. Glessner Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [4]
Stony Creek is a coastal village located the southeastern section of Branford, Connecticut, United States, centered on a harbor on Long Island Sound. Stony Creek has the ambiance of a small seaside village which retains its roots as a summer vacation location with old Victorian hotels and a working granite quarry.
Stony Creek is located at (36.946277, −77.399837 According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.5 km 2 ), all of it land. Stony Creek is located along Interstate 95 at Exit 31 ( VA 40 ), but it is also served by Exit 33 (VSR 602) with US 301 running along the west side as a frontage road at ...
Stony Creek (also known as Stoney Creek or Rausch Creek [1]) is a 23.0-mile-long (37.0 km) [2] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. [ 3 ] Stony Creek joins the Susquehanna River at the borough of Dauphin .
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1] There are 59 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, of which 3 are National Historic Landmarks.