It flows nearly due south for about a mile and receives an unnamed tributary from the left before turning south-southwest.

[3] A mid-20th-century report estimated that the rate of surface water seepage into mine workings at Pancoast Creek was 6.24 gallons per minute per inch of rain.

The estimated rate of streambed seepage into mine workings was 3.49 gallons per minute per inch of rain.

[1] A mid-20th-century report found that a total of 0.563 square miles (1.46 km2) of the watershed of Pancoast Creek was on coal measures.

[4] The mouth of Pancoast Creek is in the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Olyphant.

The creek was added because of its presence in Patton's Philadelphia and Suburbs Street and Road Map, which was published in 1984.