Schuylkill River
| Schuylkill River | ||
 The catchment area of the Schuylkill River |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | US : 1193302 | |
| location | Pennsylvania , USA | |
| River system | Delaware River | |
| Drain over | Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean | |
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Schuylkill County 40 ° 46 ′ 25 " N , 76 ° 1 ′ 23" W. |
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| Source height | 469 m | |
| muzzle | near Philadelphia in the Delaware River coordinates: 39 ° 52 '52 " N , 75 ° 11' 49" W 39 ° 52 '52 " N , 75 ° 11' 49" W |
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| Mouth height | 0 m | |
| Height difference | 469 m | |
| Bottom slope | 2.2 ‰ | |
| length | 217 km | |
| Catchment area | 5180 km² | |
 Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, August 2007 |
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The Schuylkill (pronounced: skuhkell) is a river in the east of the US state Pennsylvania . It is about 217 km long and flows into the Delaware at Philadelphia .
The river was named by the discoverer Arendt Corssen of the Dutch West India Company , his name means something like "hidden river" in Dutch .
In her travelogues Die Heimath in der neue Welt in the 1850s, Fredrika Bremer suggests that the name can be derived from the Danish “skjulte Kilder”, hidden sources.
Major cities on the riverbank are Pottsville , Reading , Pottstown , Phoenixville , Norristown , Conshohocken, and Philadelphia .
Web links
Commons : Schuylkill River - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fredrika Bremer: The home in the new world, second volume. Franckh, Stuttgart 1854, page 47.Digital full-text edition at Wikisource, URL: https://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Seite:Die_Heimath_in_der_neuen_Welt,_Zweiter_Band.djvu/65&oldid=- (Version from 22 April 2020)
View of the Schuylkill near Philadelphia, painting by Thomas Doughty , 1827