It flows southwest for a short distance before turning south-southeast for a few tenths of a mile and crossing a highway.

[3] The tributary Pancoast Creek is unaffected by culm, but it was affected by streams of surface water and sewage.

[3] A mid-20th-century report estimated the volume of surface seepage into mine workings at Price Creek was 4.22 gallons per minute per inch of rainfall.

[2] A total of 0.418 square miles (1.08 km2) of the watershed of the main stem of Price Creek is in coal measures.

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

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