Nanticoke River

Nanticoke River
River
Country	United States
Region	South Atlantic States
Tributaries
- left	Deep Creek Morgan Branch Broad Creek Barren Creek Rewastico Creek Quantico Creek Wetipquin Creek
- right	Chapel Branch Wright Creek Marshyhope Creek Chicone Creek Jacks Creek Cow Creek
Source
- location	Middleford, Delaware
Mouth	Chesapeake Bay
- location	Waterview, Maryland
Map of the rivers of the Eastern Shore of Maryland with the Nanticoke and its watershed highlighted.

The Nanticoke River is a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula. It rises in southern Kent County, Delaware, flows through Sussex County, Delaware, and forms the boundary between Dorchester County, Maryland and Wicomico County, Maryland. The tidal river course proceeds southwest into the Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay. The river is 64.3 miles (103.5 km) long. A 26-mile ecotourism water trail running along the River was set aside in July 2011 by Delaware state and federal officials, contiguous with a 37-mile water-trail extending through Maryland to the Chesapeake Bay.

Some of the main tributaries that feed the Nanticoke on the west-side include: Cow Creek; Jack Creek; Wapremander Creek; Marshyhope Creek; and the east side: Gravelly Fork and Broad Creek. Notable towns and communities situated along the river include Nanticoke, Bivalve, Vienna, and Sharptown in Maryland; and further north the city of Seaford, Delaware.

According to a study paid for by the town of Vienna, the English explorer John Smith travelled up the Nanticoke River and mapped it, and visited with Native Americans in their settlement, now believed to be Vienna.