Manada Creek

Manada Creek^[1][2][3] is a 17.0-mile-long (27.4 km)^[4] tributary of Swatara Creek in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The watershed drains approximately 32 sq mi (83 km). The name is derived the Lenape word "menatey", meaning "island".^[5]

Manada Creek
View of the creek from the Jonestown Road Bridge at Manada Hill, Pennsylvania.
Location
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
Counties	Dauphin, Lebanon
Cities	Sandbeach, Manadahill, Manada Gap, Fort Indiantown Gap
Physical characteristics
Source	Fort Indiantown Gap
• location	East Hanover Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
• coordinates	40°26′29″N 76°38′41″W
Mouth	Swatara Creek
• location	Sand Beach, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA
• coordinates	40°18′16″N 76°40′08″W
• elevation	348 ft (106 m)
Length	17.0 mi (27.4 km)
Basin size	32.2 sq mi (83 km2)
Discharge
• location	Manada Gap, Pennsylvania
• average	23 cu ft/s (0.65 m3/s)
• minimum	8 cu ft/s (0.23 m3/s)
• maximum	987 cu ft/s (27.9 m3/s)
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	Walnut Run

Course

The creek is born in Blue Mountain at Fort Indiantown Gap, East Hanover Township by the confluence of several branches, flowing southwest. The gap through the mountains which it flows through is known as Manada Gap. Later, it becomes the border of East Hanover and West Hanover townships, continuing to wind through forests and agricultural farmland before spilling into the Swatara Creek along the outskirts of the unincorporated community of Sand Beach.

The tributary Walnut Run joins Manada Creek in East Hanover Township.

Variant names

The stream was known originally as Monody Creek.^[6][7][8] Several variant names not included by the Geographic Names Information System, but have been recorded through various sources:

• Manady^[6]
• Manity^[6]
• Mannadys^[6]
• Monady^[6]
• Monaday^[6]
• Monnaday^[6]
• Monaidy^[6]
• Monday^[6]

See also

• List of rivers of Pennsylvania
• Fort Manada
• Manada Furnace
• Manada Gap, Pennsylvania
• Manada Hill, Pennsylvania