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The Mispillion River is a river flowing to Delaware Bay in southern Delaware in the United States. It is approximately Template:Convert long and drains an area of Template:Convert on the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

It rises in northern Sussex County, approximately Template:Convert southwest of Milford, and flows generally east-northeastwardly, defining the boundary between Sussex and Kent counties; it passes through the center of Milford on its course to its mouth at Delaware Bay, Template:Convert northwest of Cape Henlopen.<ref name=Columbia/><ref name=DeLorme>DeLorme (2004). Maryland Delaware Atlas & Gazetteer. pp.52-53. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. Template:ISBN.</ref> The lower Template:Convert of the river are considered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to be navigable.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

A boardwalk known as the Mispillion Riverwalk follows the river in Milford. Template:As of, an effort was underway to preserve a greenway along the river upstream and downstream of Milford.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Variant names and spellingsEdit

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Mispillion River has also been known historically as:<ref name=GNIS/>

  • Masphilion Creek
  • Maspillon Creek
  • Mispalling Creek
  • Mispelion Creek
  • Mispelon Creek
  • Mispening Creek
  • Miss Pinion River
  • Mispeninge Creek
  • Misperange River
  • Mispilian Creek
  • Mispliant Creek
  • Misspann Creek
  • Muskmellon Creek
  • Musmillion River
  • Musphilion Creek
  • Muspilion Creek

Name originEdit

"The first occurrence of this name (of the river) is in the form Mispening on a map of 1664, tentatively analyzed as meaning "as the great tuber (stream);" (Dunlap and Weslager, 1950)

See alsoEdit

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