title: Guinea Creek (Herring Creek tributary)
text: # Guinea Creek (Herring Creek tributary)
  
  Guinea Creek is a 4.22 mi (6.79 km) long 1st order tributary to Herring Creek in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
  
  ## Variant names
  
  According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as:
  
  * Goldsmith Branch
  
  ## Course
  
  Guinea Creek rises on the Emily Gut divide, about 0.1 miles southeast of Holiday Pines in Sussex County, Delaware. Guinea Creek then flows generally east to meet Herring Creek about 0.5 miles southwest of Angola Landing.
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Guinea Creek drains 7.25 square miles (18.8 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 44.9 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 635.57 and is about 24.6% forested.
  
  