 The mouth is the confluence with the Susquehanna River at an elevation of at Marietta in Lancaster County.The name of the creek comes from the Lenape "Chiquesalunga", meaning "place of crayfish".The United States Geological Survey Board on Geographic Names has made three official decisions on the name of the creek, deciding it was Chickies Creek in 1896 and 1916 before changing it to Chiques Creek in 2002.