Bound Brook (Raritan River tributary)

For the community named Bound Brook, see Bound Brook, New Jersey.

Bound Brook^[1] is a tributary of the Raritan River in Middlesex County, New Jersey, in the United States.^[2]

Bound Brook
Bound Brook, Green Brook and tributaries
Native name	Sacunk
Location
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Middlesex County
Physical characteristics
Source	Edison, New Jersey
• location	Edison, New Jersey, Edison, New Jersey
• coordinates	40°32′23″N 74°23′23″W
Mouth	Green Brook
• location	Middlesex, New Jersey
• coordinates	40°33′34″N 74°31′33″W
• elevation	20 ft (6.1 m)

Its name comes from a boundary in an Indian deed.^[3] The stream is referred to as Sacunk, a Native American name meaning "slow sluggish stream", on early maps of the area.^[4]

It rises in Edison (near Interstate 287 and County Route 501) and flows through the Dismal Swamp. It then flows through South Plainfield and the Cedar Brook joins it southwest of Spring Lake. It continues through Piscataway into New Market Pond, through Middlesex where it flows into the Green Brook at the northwest corner of Mountain View Park.

It gives its name to the borough of Bound Brook, New Jersey.

Tributaries

• Ambrose Brook
• Green Brook
  • Bonygutt Brook
  • Stony Brook
  • Blue Brook

See also

• List of rivers of New Jersey