| Plunketts Creek | |
|---|---|
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Plunketts_Creek_near_mouth.JPG) Plunketts Creek looking upstream, just north of the mouth in Plunketts Creek Township | |
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Plunketts_Creek_Map.PNG) Map of Plunketts Creek showing named tributaries and settlements along the creek | |
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:USA_Pennsylvania_relief_location_map.svg)  Location of the mouth of Plunketts Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| Counties | Lycoming, Sullivan |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Loyalsock State Forest |
| • location | Near Hillsgrove, Hillsgrove Township, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania |
| • coordinates | 41°26′41″N 76°44′48″W / 41.44472°N 76.74667°W[1] |
| • elevation | 1,440 ft (440 m)[2] |
| Mouth | Loyalsock Creek[3] |
• location | Barbours, Plunketts Creek Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania |
• coordinates | 41°23′55″N 76°47′45″W / 41.39861°N 76.79583°W[1] |
• elevation | 725 ft (221 m)[1] |
| Length | 6.2 mi (10.0 km)[4][3] |
| Basin size | 23.6 sq mi (61 km2)[5] |
Plunketts Creek is an approximately 6.2-mile-long (10 km) tributary of Loyalsock Creek in Lycoming and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Two unincorporated villages and a hamlet are on the creek, and its watershed drains 23.6 square miles (61 km2) in parts of five townships. The creek is a part of the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin via Loyalsock Creek and the West Branch Susquehanna and Susquehanna Rivers.
Plunketts Creek's name comes from the first owner of the land including the creek's mouth, and the creek has given its name to two townships (although one has since changed its name). The creek flows southwest and then south through the dissected Allegheny Plateau, through rock from the Mississippian sub-period and Devonian period. Much of the Plunketts Creek valley is composed of various glacial deposits, chiefly alluvium.
Although the Plunketts Creek watershed was clear-cut and home to a tannery, sawmills, and a coal mine in the nineteenth century, today it is heavily wooded and known for its high water quality, fishing, and other recreational opportunities. The watershed now includes parts of the Loyalsock State Forest, Pennsylvania State Game Lands, and a State Game Farm for raising pheasant. Tourism, hunting, and fishing have long been important in the region, and the year-round population of Plunketts Creek Township is increasing much faster than that of either Lycoming or Sullivan County.
- ^ a b c "Feature Detail Report: Plunketts Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. August 1, 1979. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
- ^ USGS. "United States Geological Survey Topographic Map, Hillsgrove (PA) Quad". www.topoquest.com. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
- ^ a b 2007 General Highway Map Lycoming County Pennsylvania (PDF) (Map). Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Planning and Research, Geographic Information Division. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2007-08-05.[clarification needed]
- ^ 2007 General Highway Map Sullivan County Pennsylvania (PDF) (Map). Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Planning and Research, Geographic Information Division. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-02. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
- ^ Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams (PDF). Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Watershed Management, Division of Water Use Planning. 2 November 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-17. Retrieved 2013-06-28.