Martins Creek (Delaware River tributary)

Double rainbow over Minsi Lake
Minsi Lake in Northampton County

Martins Creek is a 10.4-mile-long (16.7 km)[1] tributary of the Delaware River in eastern Pennsylvania in the United States.[2] In all, the main creek and its two branches drain an area of 46.7 square miles.[3] Martins Creek joins the Delaware just south of the town of Martins Creek.[2]

The stream was originally referred to as Tunam's or Turnami Creek, probably of Native American origin. It was known as Martin's Creek as early as 1805, named for James Martin, an early settler to the town Martins Creek, who built a grist mill here around 1747 and later served as a colonel during the Revolutionary War.[3]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 1, 2011
  2. ^ a b Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
  3. ^ a b Wright, James; Wright, Wright (1988). Place Names of Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Nazareth, Pennsylvania: J&L Wright. pp. 142–143.