Pipers Creek

See also: Daylighting (streams)#Pipers Creek

Pipers Creek in Carkeek Park

Pipers Creek is a 1.4-mile (2.3 km)^[1] urban stream in the Broadview and Blue Ridge neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington, whose entire length is within the boundaries of Carkeek Park. Its tributaries are Venema Creek and Mohlendorph Creek. It empties into Puget Sound. The creek was renamed "Piper's" by early White settler A. W. Piper, but the name has largely become "Pipers". The Duwamish called the creek "Dropped Down" (Lushootseed: qWátub).^[2]

Daylighted Mohlendorph Creek is mostly within the boundaries of Carkeek Park. It receives Venema Creek and empties into Pipers Creek near the mouth on Puget Sound.

Most of daylighthed Venema Creek is within Carkeek Park. It empties into Mohlendorph Creek, just west of the Carkeek Park Environmental Education Center.

See also

• List of rivers of Washington
• Daylighting (streams)
• Water resources
• Boeing Creek

References

1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pipers Creek
2. ^ Thrush, Coll (2007). Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place. University of Washington Press. pp. 222. ISBN 0-295-98700-6. 

Bibliography

• "Carkeek Park". Seattle Parks and Recreation. 2006-08-08. http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/parkspaces/carkeek.htm. Retrieved 2006-08-21. 
• Sherwood, Don (2003-06-20). "Carkeek Park" (PDF). PARK HISTORY: Sherwood History Files. Seattle Parks and Recreation. http://www.seattle.gov/parks/history/Carkeek.pdf. Retrieved 2006-04-21. 

Further reading

• Seattle Parks and Recreation "Pipers Creek Watershed", GIF.

Coordinates: 47°42′42″N 122°22′48″W / 47.71167°N 122.38°W / 47.71167; -122.38