- Big Bushkill Creek
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For other streams with similar names, see Bushkill (disambiguation).
Big Bushkill Creek (Bush Kill on federal maps[1]) is a 30.1-mile-long (48.4 km)[2] tributary of the Delaware River in the Poconos of eastern Pennsylvania in the United States.
It originates from Pecks Pond 41°16′51″N 75°05′14″W / 41.2808°N 75.0872°W in Pike County. It flows south, entering Pickerel Lake and then into Beaver Run Pond. Most of the stream travels through Delaware State Forest before entering Monroe County. It is a prominent feature of Resica Falls Scout Reservation.
Bush Kill joins the Delaware River at the village of Bushkill.
Contents
Tributaries
- Little Bush Kill
- Sand Hill Creek
- Saw Creek
- Spring Run
- Pennel Run
- Dancing Ridge Run
- Utt Run
- High Swamp Run
- Sixteen Mile Run
- Brights Creek
- Beaver Run
- Middle Branch Bush Kill
- There are at least five unnamed tributaries to the Bush Kill
See also
- List of Pennsylvania rivers
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bush Kill
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
- Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
- USGS 7.5' Quadrangles: Peck's Pond (1997), Twelve Mile Pond (1997), Skytop (1997), Bushkill (1993) & Flatbrookville (1997), United States Geological Survey, Scale- 1:24,000
External links
Categories:- Rivers of Pennsylvania
- The Poconos
- Tributaries of the Delaware River
- Geography of Monroe County, Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania geography stubs
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