Middle Brook (Raritan River tributary)

This article is about the river. For the community, see Middlebrook, New Jersey.
Middle Brook
Buttermilk Falls on the East Branch
Middle Brook (Raritan River tributary) is located in Somerset County, New Jersey
Middle Brook (Raritan River tributary)
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew Jersey
CountySomerset County
Physical characteristics
MouthRaritan River
 • location
Middlebrook
 • coordinates
40°33′20″N 74°32′36″W / 40.55556°N 74.54333°W / 40.55556; -74.54333
Basin features
River systemRaritan River
GNIS feature ID878292[1]

Middle Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in Somerset County, New Jersey. The stream can be referred to as Rha-weigh-weiros, a Native American name meaning "running from a deep hole", on early maps of the area.[2]

  1. ^ "Middle Brook". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ The story of an old farm: or, Life in New Jersey in the eighteenth ..., Part 1, p. 169; By Andrew D. Mellick