Sleepy Creek is a 44.0-mile-long (70.8 km)[2] tributary of the Potomac River in the United States, belonging to the Chesapeake Bay's watershed. The stream rises in Frederick County, Virginia, and flows through Morgan County, West Virginia before joining the Potomac near the community of Sleepy Creek.

Sleepy Creek
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Location
Country	United States
State	Virginia, West Virginia
Counties	Frederick, Morgan
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Near Whitacre, Frederick County, Virginia
• coordinates	39°21′17″N 78°20′39″W[1]
Mouth	Potomac River
• location	Sleepy Creek, Morgan County, West Virginia
• coordinates	39°40′14″N 78°05′04″W[1]
Length	44 mi (71 km)

While Sleepy Creek Lake is a part of the Sleepy Creek watershed, it is an impoundment of its tributary, Meadow Branch, in Berkeley County, West Virginia and not of Sleepy Creek itself.

Course

Sleepy Creek's source lies north of State Route 127 in Frederick County, Virginia, near the Hampshire County, West Virginia border at Good. From Frederick County, Sleepy Creek flows north through Morgan County, West Virginia, where it drains into the Potomac at the community of Sleepy Creek on the old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad mainline.

Tributaries

Tributary streams listed from south (source) to north (mouth).

• Bear Garden Run
• Hands Run
• Breakneck Run
• Indian Run
  • South Fork Indian Run
  • Middle Fork Indian Run
  • North Fork Indian Run
• Rock Gap Run
• Middle Fork Sleepy Creek
  • Iden Run
• South Fork Sleepy Creek
  • Merchant Run
• Mountain Run
• Yellow Spring Run
• Meadow Branch

Bridges

Cities and towns along Sleepy Creek

See also

• List of West Virginia rivers
• List of Virginia rivers
• Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area

References

External links

• Sleepy Creek Watershed Association