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The creek rises in the Kemp Mill section of Silver Spring in Montgomery County, Maryland, and joins with Northwest Branch near the City of Hyattsville in Prince George's CountyPrince George's County is a suburban county located in the U. State of Maryland immediately east of Washington, D. It is notable as one of the wealthiest majority-African-American areas in the country. The county was named for Prince George of Denmark, th. The lower portion of the creek has been channelizedThis article is about stream channelization. For channelization in the context of telecommunications, see Channelized. Channelization is the process of reconstructing the natual course of a stream in order to make it flow into a restricted path. Channeliz. Elevations in the subwatershed range from 450 feetA foot is a non- SI unit of distance or length. The popular belief is that original standard was the length of a man's foot. The average foot length is about 240 mm (9. 4 in) for current Europeans. About 996 of 1000 British men have a foot that is less th (137 metersFor other uses of "metre" and "meter", see Metre (disambiguation). The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Systeme International d'Unites). It is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in absolute vacu) above sea levelFor considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise''. Mean sea level (MSL) is the average height of the sea, with reference to a suitable reference surface. Defining the reference level , to 35 feet (10.6 metres) at the confluenceA confluence is the merger or meeting of two or more objects (or subjects) that seem to inseparably bind their respective forces or attributes into a point of junction. Geography The word is typically used in geography to describe the point where two rive with Northwest Branch; the average gradient for the course of the creek is 0.72%.
Contributing streams that flow into the creek include: Wheaton Branch, Comstock Branch, Takoma Park Branch, and Long Branch.
Sligo Creek is one of the most heavily urbanized subwatersheds in the Anacostia watershedFor a term related to television programmes, see watershed (television). A watershed or water basin is the region of land that drains into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean. Rain that falls anywhere within a given body of wat, with a population density of 7,081 people per square mile. 75% of the watershed is in Montgomery County, 20% is in Prince George's County, and 5% is in the District of ColumbiaWashington, DC officially the District of Columbia (also known as DC Washington and, historically, the Federal City is the capital city and administrative district of the United States of America. Residents of the city and its surrounding suburbs refer to. Less than 15% of the subwatershed is undeveloped and only 10% is forested. Less than 0.01% is wetlands.
A hiker-biker trail[1] and an automobile parkway run along much of the Montgomery County length of the creek. The creek crosses through the communities of Silver Spring, Wheaton, Takoma Park, Chillum and Hyattsville.