North Branch Penobscot River

North Branch Penobscot River
North Branch Penobscot River
Origin Maine
Mouth Seboomook Lake
45°54′09″N 69°57′40″W / 45.9025°N 69.9610°W / 45.9025; -69.9610Coordinates: 45°54′09″N 69°57′40″W / 45.9025°N 69.9610°W / 45.9025; -69.9610
Progression West Branch Penobscot River – Penobscot River
Basin countries United States
Length 28 miles (45 km)
Source elevation 1,290 feet (390 m)
Mouth elevation 1,070 feet (330 m)

The North Branch Penobscot River is a river in Somerset County, Maine. From its source at the outlet of Little Bog (46°09′23″N 69°57′21″W / 46.1563°N 69.9557°W / 46.1563; -69.9557 (North Branch Penobscot River source)) about 10 miles (16 km) east of the Canada – United States border in Maine Township 6, Range 17, WELS, the river runs 27.8 miles (44.7 km)[1] southwest and southeast to its drowned confluence with the South Branch of the Penobscot River in Seboomook Lake in Pittston Academy Grant (T.2 R.4 NBKP).

In 1939, the Great Northern Paper Company impounded Fifth St. John Pond in T.6 R.17 and dug a 2-mile-long (3.2 km) canal from the pond allowing the diversion of water from the Saint John River's Baker Branch into the Penobscot's North Branch, to sluice wood to the company mill at Millinocket. Yellow perch also used the canal to spread into the upper Penobscot River drainage.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 22, 2011
  2. ^ "Fifth St. John Pond" (PDF). Maine Lake Survey Maps. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game. http://www.maine.gov/ifw/fishing/lakesurvey_maps/somerset/st_john_pond_fifth.pdf. Retrieved 2010-05-24. 



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