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Shellpot Creek Tributary to Delaware River
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Location
Country	United States
State	Delaware
County	New Castle
City	Bellefonte, Delaware
Physical characteristics
Source	divide between Shellpot Creek and Brandywine Creek
• location	Between Grubb and Shipley Road in Brandywine Hundred.
• coordinates	39°49′19″N 75°31′55″W / 39.82194°N 75.53194°W / 39.82194; -75.53194
• elevation	340 ft (100 m)
Mouth	Delaware River
• location	Bellefonte, Delaware
• coordinates	39°44′05″N 75°30′16″W / 39.73472°N 75.50444°W / 39.73472; -75.50444
• elevation	0 ft (0 m)
Length	8.7 miles
Basin size	9.32 square miles (24.1 km)
Basin features
Progression	Delaware River → Delaware Bay → Atlantic Ocean
River system	Delaware River
Tributaries
• left	unnamed tributaries
• right	Turkey Run Matson Run

Shellpot Creek is a tributary of the Delaware River in northeast New Castle County, Delaware. The stream rises between Grubb Road and Shipley Road, south of Naaman's Road at 39°49′19″N 75°31′55″W / 39.82194°N 75.53194°W / 39.82194; -75.53194 in Brandywine Hundred and flows southeast for about six miles before discharging into the Delaware River at 39°44′05″N 75°30′16″W / 39.73472°N 75.50444°W / 39.73472; -75.50444 near Edgemoor. Prior to 1938, the stream drained into the Brandywine Creek, but was subsequently redirected to the Delaware River.

The watershed has a drainage area of nearly 15 square miles, and is the most suburbanized drainage area in the state-designated "Piedmont Basin" (which consists of the watersheds of the Christina River, Brandywine Creek, Red Clay Creek, White Clay Creek, Naamans Creek, and Shellpot Creek). New Castle County, the Calpine Edge Moor Power Plant, the former Chemours Edge Moor plant, Amtrak, and the City of Wilmington all discharge storm-water into Shellpot Creek. During Tropical Storm Allison (1989), the creek flooded to record levels, with the flow rising from 1,300 gallons per minute to 3.6 millions of gallons per minute (or more than 8,000 cubic feet per second).

The name is likely derived from the Swedish Sköllpadde Fallet (meaning "Turtle Falls"), and has been historically known as "Schillpades", "Skilpot", and "Shilpot".

See also

• List of rivers of Delaware
• Shellpot Park

References

1. ^ "GNIS Detail - Shellpot Creek". geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
2. ^ "Shellpot Creek Topo Map, New Castle County DE (Wilmington South Area)". TopoZone. Locality, LLC. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
3. "Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) Analysis for Shellpot Creek, Delaware" (PDF). Delaware Division of Water Resources. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
4. "Shellpot Creek Watershed Report". Waters Geoviewer. US EPA. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
5. Geoviewer
6. "Shellpot Creek Watershed" (PDF). DNREC.
7. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Shellpot Creek
8. ^ "Shellpot Creek - Delaware Watersheds". Delaware Watersheds. Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and University of Delaware, Water Resources Agency. Archived from the original on 2013-09-04.
9. ^ Bagwell, Anne Marina (2007). A Synoptically Guided Approach to Determining Suburbanization's Impacts on the Hydrology of the Red and White Clay Creeks, Pennsylvania and Delaware. University of Delaware, Department of Geography. p. 71. ISBN 978-0549387145.
10. "The Piedmont Basin". Delaware Watersheds. Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and University of Delaware, Water Resources Agency. Archived from the original on 2013-09-04.
11. "Decision Rationale Total Maximum Daily Loads for Shellpot Creek, New Castle County, Delaware" (PDF). EPA.
12. "USGS 01477800 SHELLPOT CREEK AT WILMINGTON, DE".
13. Federal Writers' Project (1938). Delaware: A Guide to the First State. US History Publishers. p. 326. ISBN 9781603540087.

v t e Municipalities and communities of New Castle County, Delaware, United States
County seat: Wilmington
Cities	Delaware City New Castle Newark Wilmington
Towns	Bellefonte Clayton‡ Elsmere Middletown Newport Odessa Smyrna‡ Townsend
Villages	Arden Ardencroft Ardentown
CDPs	Bear Brookside Claymont Edgemoor Glasgow Greenville Hockessin North Star Pike Creek Pike Creek Valley Port Penn St. Georges Wilmington Manor
Unincorporated communities	Ashland Augustine Beach Bellevue Belvedere Blackbird Blue Ball Boyds Corner Brackenville Carpenter Carrcroft Centerville Christiana Cleland Heights Collins Beach Corner Ketch Deerhurst Delaire Dunleith Edenridge Elmhurst Farnhurst Faulkland Fieldsboro Flemings Landing Foulk Woods Granogue Green Acres Green Meadow Greenbank Guyencourt Gwinhurst Hanbys Corner Hares Corner Hillcrest Holloway Terrace Holly Oak Kirkwood Lancashire Liftwood Lindamere Loveville Lynnfield Marshallton Mathews Corners Mayfield McClellandville McDaniel Heights McDonough Meadowbrook Mechanicsville Milford Crossroads Mill Creek Milltown Minquadale Monroe Park Montchanin Mount Cuba Mount Pleasant Naaman Naamans Gardens Ogletown Overlook Colony Pembrey Penarth Pennrock Perth Pennyhill Phillips Heights Pleasantville Porter Prices Corner Quarryville Red Lion Riverside Rockland Sharpley Shellburne Silverside Heights Silverside Silview Smyrna Landing‡ Stanton State Road Stockdale Summit Bridge Talleys Corner Talleyville Tavistock Taylors Bridge Tybouts Corner Twin Oaks Ways Corner Webster Farm Welshire Westover Hills Wilmont Windybush Woodbrook Wooddale Woodside Hills Worthland Wrangle Hill Yorklyn
Hundreds	Appoquinimink Blackbird Brandywine Christiana Mill Creek New Castle Pencader Red Lion St. George's White Clay Creek Wilmington
Ghost towns	Airport Villa Glenville
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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