Tulpehocken Creek (Schuylkill River)
| Tulip Squat Creek | ||
 Catchment area of the Schuylkill |
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| Data | ||
| location | Pennsylvania , ( United States ) | |
| River system | Delaware | |
| Drain over | Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean | |
| Beginning | Headwaters 40 ° 22 ′ 4 ″ N , 76 ° 23 ′ 21 ″ W |
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| Source height | approx. 190 m | |
| muzzle | Confluence coordinates: 40 ° 20 ′ 41 ″ N , 75 ° 57 ′ 2 ″ W 40 ° 20 ′ 41 ″ N , 75 ° 57 ′ 2 ″ W. |
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| Mouth height | approx. 55 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 135 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 2.1 ‰ | |
| length | 63.6 km | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Blue Marsh Lake | |
| Medium-sized cities | Meyerstown , Reading | |
 Remains of a former bridge over Tulpehocken Creek |
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The Tulpehocken Creek is a river in Berks County in the US state of Pennsylvania . It rises about 1.5 kilometers east of Millardsville . Then he passes Stouchsburg on the left and Womelsdorf on the right , before turning north. There it flows past Charming Forge (left). After Kricks Mill (right) it flows east until it turns south of Bernville in a southeast direction. Below Bernville, the Tulpehocken Creek is dammed into the Blue Marsh Lake . In Reading it flows into the Schuylkill River .