title: Canary Creek (Broadkill River tributary)
text: # Canary Creek (Broadkill River tributary)
  
  Canary Creek is a 4.09 mi (6.58 km) long first-order tributary to the Broadkill River in Sussex County, Delaware.
  
  ## Course
  
  Canary Creek rises on the Wolfe Glade divide in Lewes, Delaware and then flows generally northwest to join the Broadkill River about 1-mile northwest of Lewes, Delaware.
  
  ## Variant names
  
  According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as:
  
  * Canarical Creek
  * Canarikill
  * Pagan Creek
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Canary Creek drains 4.81 square miles (12.5 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 45.4 in/year of precipitation, and is about 3.19% forested.
  
  