Black Creek (Nescopeck Creek tributary)

Black Creek in Black Creek Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Black Creek is a long source tributary of Nescopeck Creek so part of the Susquehanna River drainage basin. It is also the second[1] & longer stream of the same name recognized by the USGS GNIS system in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,[1] in the United States—compared to the Black Creek beyond the ridgeline of the drainage divide, so in the Lehigh River valley and Carbon County.[a] The headwaters of both Black Creeks in Luzerne county are only a few miles apart, and both valleys were traversed by the Lausanne-Nescopeck Turnpike (Lehigh-Susquehanna Turnpike) in the first half of the 19th-century.

The J-on-its-long-side-shaped brook is approximately 22.6 miles (36.4 km) long,[2] and in the early 1800s the sides of its valley became the path of the Lausanne-Nescopeck Turnpike (Lehigh-Susquehanna Turnpike)— connecting Philadelphia and the Delaware basin communities to the new settlements in the mid-Susquehanna and Wyoming valleys via paths along the banks of the Lehigh and the Susquehanna Rivers.

  1. ^ a b c USGS GNIS system, search by name in Pennsylvania. Relative lengths from other data sources, but GNIS data puts the differences at over 20 miles. (See GNIS details: 1169695, Black Creek vs. 1169696, Black Creek.)
  2. ^ United States Geological Survey, The National Map Viewer, archived from the original on March 29, 2012, retrieved September 5, 2014


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