Herring Run Tributary to Blackbird Creek | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Delaware |
County | New Castle |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | On divide between Herring Run and Appoquinimink River |
• location | about 0.5 miles east of Townsend, Delaware |
• coordinates | 39°23′49″N 075°40′33″W / 39.39694°N 75.67583°W [1] |
• elevation | 70 ft (21 m) [2] |
Mouth | Blackbird Creek |
• location | about 0.5 miles east of H&H Corner, Delaware |
• coordinates | 39°23′00″N 075°38′31″W / 39.38333°N 75.64194°W [1] |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m) [2] |
Length | 2.26 mi (3.64 km) [3] |
Basin size | 10.29 square miles (26.7 km2) [4] |
Discharge | |
• location | Blackbird Creek |
• average | 2.42 cu ft/s (0.069 m3/s) at mouth with Blackbird Creek [4] |
Basin features | |
Progression | Blackbird Creek → Delaware Bay → Atlantic Ocean |
River system | Delaware River |
Tributaries | |
• left | unnamed tributaries |
• right | unnamed tributaries |
Bridges | DE 1, US 13, Union Church Road |
Herring Run is a 2.26-mile-long (3.64 km) tributary to Blackbird Creek in northern Delaware in the United States.
Herring Run rises east of Townsend in southern New Castle County, Delaware and flows southeast to meet Blackbird Creek east of H&H Corner.
The Herring Run watershed is about 26% forested and 64% agricultural with the rest being other land uses. The watershed receives approximately 43.4 in/year of precipitation and has a wetness index of 602.69. [4]