Sacony Creek (historically Saucony Creek) is a tributary of Maiden Creek in Berks County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It flows through the borough of Kutztown, and is the main water source there. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission stock trout into the creek annually.

Sacony is a name derived from a Lenni Lenape Native American language purported to mean "place of outlet" or "where two rivers run together".

Sacony Creek

The Kutz Mill and Kutz's Mill Bridge are located on Sacony Creek in Greenwich Township.

Sacony Creek

Sacony Creek joins Maiden Creek at the community of Virginville.

Sacony Creek

The shoe manufacturer Saucony is named after Sacony Creek, as the company was founded on the banks of the Sacony in 1898, in Kutztown.

See also

List of rivers of Pennsylvania

References

Rivers of Pennsylvania

Tributaries of the Schuylkill River

Rivers of Berks County, Pennsylvania