Nesquehoning Creek

Nesquehoning Creek
Twin sources of Nesquehoning Creek as Nesquehoning Mountain and Broad Mountain merge in the saddle above Tamaqua, Pennsylvania and below the drainage divide from the Little Schuylkill River below and west. (Image is rotated so east is at bottom)
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationHighest of two: on south face Broad Mountain above Hometown
 • coordinates40°51′00″N 75°58′30″W / 40.85°N 75.975°W / 40.85; -75.975
 • elevation1,360 feet (415 m)
Mouth 
 • location
Lehigh River between Jim Thorpe and Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, U.S.
 • coordinates
40°52′32″N 75°45′41″W / 40.8755°N 75.7615°W / 40.8755; -75.7615
Length14.9 mi (24.0 km)[1]
Coal-laden parallel ridges north of Blue Mountain, Pennsylvania in the physiographic province of the Anthracite Upland Section; in the Lehigh Valley, Nesquehoning Creek terminates below Nesquehoning between two important railroad transfer yards, falling from its western source between Broad Mountain and Nesquehoning Mountain.

Nesquehoning Creek is an east flowing 14.9-mile-long (24.0 km)[1] tributary of the Lehigh River in northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States.[2]

Nesquehoning Creek joins the Lehigh River 2 miles (3.2 km) upstream of the borough of Jim Thorpe in Carbon County.[2]

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
  2. ^ a b Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6