Chickies Creek


  • COORDINATES: Original location undetermined as creek flows thru both Lancaster and Lebanon counties
  • COUNTY: Lancaster and Lebanon.
  • STATUS: Believed long gone, See info on name changes. These double-sided signs were where major roadways crossed significant creeks or rivers.

photo from R.C. Heagey collection, believed to be circa 1950.

 

 

The name of the creek comes from the Lenape Chiquesalunga, meaning “place of crayfish“.[3]

The United States Geological Survey Board on Geographic Names has made three official decisions on the name of the creek, deciding it was Chickies Creek in 1896 and 1916 before changing it to Chiques Creek