Sleepy Creek

For the unincorporated community in West Virginia, see Sleepy Creek, West Virginia.

Sleepy Creek
Stream
Country	United States
States	Virginia, West Virginia
Counties	Frederick, Morgan


Source
- location	Near Whitacre, Frederick County, Virginia
- coordinates	39°21′17″N 78°20′39″W / 39.35472°N 78.34417°W / 39.35472; -78.34417 ^[1]
Mouth	Potomac River
- location	Sleepy Creek, Morgan County, West Virginia
- coordinates	39°40′14″N 78°05′04″W / 39.67056°N 78.08444°W / 39.67056; -78.08444Coordinates: 39°40′14″N 78°05′04″W / 39.67056°N 78.08444°W / 39.67056; -78.08444 ^[1]

Length	44 mi (71 km)

Location of the mouth of Sleepy Creek in West Virginia

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.

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.

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

Bridge	Route	Location
CR 38/10 Bridge	Fish Hatchery Road (CR 38/10)	Ridge
Oakland Road Bridge	Oakland Road (CR 28)	Oakland
CR 13 Bridge	Winchester Grade Road (CR 13)	Smith Crossroads
Smith Crossroads Bridge	Spriggs Road (CR 13/1)	Smith Crossroads
Johnson's Mill Bridge	Johnson's Mill Road (CR 26)	Johnsons Mill
CR 8 Bridge	Highland Ridge Road (CR 8)	Johnsons Mill
WV 9 Sleepy Creek Bridge	Martinsburg Road (WV 9)	Spohrs Crossroads
Restricted Height Bridge	Burnt Mill Road (CR 1/3)	Spohrs Crossroads
River Road Bridge	River Road (CR 1)	Sleepy Creek
Sleepy Creek Railroad Bridge	Baltimore & Ohio Railroad	Sleepy Creek

1 2 "Sleepy Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed August 15, 2011

Streams shown as: Major tributaries
- subtributaries
- (subsubtributaries)
- (subsubsubtributaries)

Shenandoah River

North Fork Shenandoah River Cedar Creek Smith Creek South Fork Shenandoah River North River (Middle River) South River

North Branch Potomac River

Stony River Abram Creek Savage River Georges Creek Laurel Run New Creek Limestone Run Warrior Run Wills Creek Brush Creek Little Wills Creek Evitts Creek Patterson Creek Mill Creek Dans Run Green Spring Run

South Branch Potomac River

North Fork South Branch Potomac River Laurel Fork Mill Creek Seneca Creek South Fork South Branch Potomac River Kettle Creek Lunice Creek Mill Run Mill Creek Big Run Buffalo Creek

Lakes and reservoirs

Lake Accotink Lake Anne Lake Artemesia Lake Bernard Frank Lake Braddock Breckenridge Reservoir Brushy Fork Lake Burke Lake Dalecarlia Reservoir Georgetown Reservoir Jennings Randolph Lake Kingman Lake Little Seneca Lake McMillan Reservoir Mount Storm Lake Lake Needwood Sleepy Creek Lake Stony River Reservoir Tidal Basin Trout Pond Warden Lake

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