title: Fishing Creek (Blackbird Creek tributary)
text: # Fishing Creek (Blackbird Creek tributary)
  
  Fishing Creek is a 2.19 mi (3.52 km) long 1st order tributary to Blackbird Creek in New Castle County, Delaware. This creek is entirely tidal for its course.
  
  ## Course
  
  Fishing Creek rises on the Cedar Swamp divide about 0.5 miles north of Taylors Bridge in New Castle County, Delaware. Fishing Creek then flows northwest to meet Blackbird Creek about 2 miles north of Taylors Bridge, Delaware.
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Fishing Creek drains 0.58 square miles (1.5 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 43.3 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 792.29 and is about 4.7% forested.
  
  