Basin size 413 sq mi (1,070 km) Country United States of America | Length 68 km | |
Main source Jackson Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania River mouth Susquehanna River in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania Progression Tunkhannock Creek → Susquehanna River → Chesapeake Bay Tributaries Left:
Rock Creek, Bear Swamp Creek, East Branch Tunkhannock Creek, South Branch Tunkhannock Creek
Right:
Bell Creek, Nine Partners Creek, Partners Creek, Tower Branch, Millard Creek, Utley Brook, Martins Creek, Horton Creek, Field Brook, Monroe Creek, Oxbow Creek, Billings Mill Brook, Swale Brook Bridges Tunkhannock Viaduct, Bridge in Nicholson Township | ||
Tunkhannock Creek is a 42.3-mile-long (68.1 km) tributary of the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania, United States.
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Map of Tunkhannock Creek, Pennsylvania, USA
English translations of the Lenni-Lenape Tunkhannock vary, including "meeting of the waters", "small stream", "wilderness stream", and "wooded stream". Most sources note, however, that hanna, as in Susque-, Toby-, Loyal-, Tunkhannock, and Lackawanna, suggests "moving water."
Tunkhannock Creek is traced northeast along PA Highway 92 to its source of Cheraine Pond near Jackson. It has an East Branch that rises in Herrick Township to the east and north of Elk Mountain and a South Branch that rises near Montdale in Scott Township. Tunkhannock Creek's major tributaries include, Nine Partners Creek, East Branch Tunkhannock Creek Horton Creek, Martins Creek, Hop Bottom Creek, and East Branch Tunkhannock Creek.
The 2,400-foot-long (730 m) Erie Lackawanna Railway Tunkhannock Viaduct (called locally the "Nicholson Bridge"), featuring high, multiple concrete arches, passes over the creek near Nicholson.
Tunkhannock Creek empties into the Susquehanna at Tunkhannock in Wyoming County.
South Branch Tunkhannock CreekEdit
The South Branch joins the main branch approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km) downstream of the community of East Lemon, and approximately 6.3 miles (10.1 km) upstream of the Susquehanna River.