Nassawango Creek Explained

Nassawango Creek
Subdivision Type1:Country
Subdivision Name1:United States
Subdivision Type2:State
Subdivision Name2:Maryland
Subdivision Type3:Area
Subdivision Name3:Delmarva Peninsula
Subdivision Type4:Counties
Source1 Location:Wicomico County, Maryland
Mouth:Pocomoke River
Mouth Location:Below Snow Hill, Maryland
Mouth Coordinates:38.16°N -75.423°W

Nassawango Creek (or) is a stream in the U.S. state of Maryland; it is the largest tributary of the Pocomoke River, located on the Delmarva Peninsula. Older variations on the same name include Nassanongo, Naseongo, Nassiongo, and Nassiungo, meaning "[ground] between [the streams]".[1] Early English records have it as Askimenokonson Creek, after a Native settlement near its headwaters (askimenokonson roughly approximating a local Algonquian word meaning "stony place where they pick early [straw]berries").

The Nassawango rises in Wicomico County, Maryland and flows [2] through Worcester County to join the Pocomoke below Snow Hill. Large portions of its drainage lie within the Pocomoke River State Forest and The Nature Conservancy's Nassawango Creek Preserve.[3] Nassawango Creek and its tributaries were once dammed in several places for mills; one dam site, became an early industrial blast furnace operation, where bog iron ore was smelted to make pig iron at Furnacetown during the first half of the 19th century. Today, the furnace grounds are considered a local historical landmark.

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Notes and References

  1. Runkle, Stephen A. Native American Waterbody and Place Names within the Susquehanna River Basin and Surrounding Subbasins Publication 229. Susquehanna River Basin Commission, September 2003.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
  3. Web site: Nassawango Creek Preserve . . June 21, 2020 . https://archive.today/20081002234554/http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/maryland/preserves/art21134.html . 2008-10-02 . dead.