Beaver Creek (Lehigh River tributary)

Beaver Creek in Carbon County, Pennsylvania is an east-to-west-running tributary of the Lehigh River giving name to and draining the southern terrains of Beaver Meadows into Black Creek.

Beaver Creek, Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Highest of two: on south face Broad Mountain above Hometown, Pennsylvania
• coordinates	40.85°N 75.975°W / 40.85; -75.975
• elevation	1,360 feet (415 m)
Mouth
• location	Lehigh River between Jim Thorpe and Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania
• coordinates	40°52′32″N 75°45′41″W
Length	14.9 mi (24.0 km)[1]

The creek rises 1,500 feet (460 m) southeast of the intersection of Main Street and Lincoln Circle^[2] in Junedale, one unincorporated village (neighborhood) of Banks Township at the northwestern corner of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, and runs nearly due east-northeast through the center of Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania 5.74 miles (9.24 km) to the centerline of Weatherly, where it turns abruptly and runs due south 1.25 miles through the center of Weatherly, where, 7.0 miles (11.3 km) from its source, it merges with Hazle Creek, thereby forming Black Creek, Pennsylvania, which turns abruptly east from its origin.

History

The streams played a large role in the development of the Province of Pennsylvania as a turnpike was constructed from Lausanne^{[lower-alpha 1]} along Black Creek and Beaver Creek, north from Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania to the Susquehanna River, and the developing Industrializing United States, as a 19th-century transportation corridor hosting the Beaver Meadows Railroad connecting Beaver Meadows via Weatherly and Penn Haven Junction to the Lehigh Canal.

See also

• List of rivers of Pennsylvania

Notes

1. Lausanne was a 19th-century township which included the Lehigh's exit from the Lehigh River Gorge opposite the mouth of Nesquehoning Creek about two miles above Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.

References

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. Distance measured on Google map using ruler tool from west end of pond to intersection listed. co-ords of source are 40.921497, -75.934440, Banks Township, PA.