Beaver Creek (Tinicum Creek tributary)

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Beaver Creek
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Beaver Creek
Native nameAmochkhanne (Delaware)
Location
Country United States
State Pennsylvania
County Bucks
Township Tinicum, Nockamixon, Bridgeton
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • coordinates 40°32′14″N75°7′20″W / 40.53722°N 75.12222°W / 40.53722; -75.12222
 • elevation540 feet (160 m)
Mouth  
 • coordinates
 40°28′50″N75°8′49″W / 40.48056°N 75.14694°W / 40.48056; -75.14694
 • elevation
226 feet (69 m)
Length4.76 miles (7.66 km)
Basin size6.83 square miles (17.7 km2)
Basin features
ProgressionBeaver Creek → Tinicum Creek → Delaware River → Delaware Bay
River system Delaware River
BridgesLonely Cottage Road, Lonely Cottage Road, Strocks Grove Road, Rocky Ridge Road, Byers Road, Clay Ridge Road

Beaver Creek (Lenape name - Amochkhanne, Amoch=beaver, khanne=creek) is a tributary of Tinicum Creek in Bridgeton, Nockamixon, and Tinicum Townships in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The creek is part of the Delaware River watershed. [1]

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Statistics

Beaver Creek was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on 2 August 1979 as identification number 1169002, its identification number in the PA Gazetteer of Streams is 3241. [2] [3]

Course

Beaver Creek rises in Bridgeton Township near Lonely Cottage Road at an elevation of approximately 540 feet (160 m) and runs generally southwest for 3.68 miles (5.92 km) until it meets its confluence at Tinicum Creek's 6.41 river mile at an elevation of 226 feet (69 m). During its course it receives three tributaries from the left and three from the right. The average slope is 85.3 feet per mile (15.37 meters per kilometer). [4]

Geology

Beaver Creek's course is located in a region of diabase rock which intruded into the local sedimentary layers of the Brunswick and Lockatong Formations during the Jurassic and the Triassic, then the remaining course flows over the Brunswick Formation. Diabase is a dark gray to black, fine grained and very dense, consisting of primarily labradorite and augite. [5]

Crossings and Bridges

CrossingNBI NumberLengthLanesSpansMaterial/DesignBuiltReconstructedLatitudeLongitude
Lonely Cottage Road---------
Lonely Cottage Road76247 metres (23 ft)21Steel stringer/multi-beam or girder1961-40°32'5.1"N75°7'38.2"W
Strocks Grove Road75717 metres (23 ft)11Concrete tee-beam1920-40°31'11"N75°8'4"W
Rocky Ridge Road76237 metres (23 ft)21Steel stringer/multi-beam or girder1980-40°30'55.3"N75°8'18.1"W
Byers Road756914 metres (46 ft)12Concrete tee-beam1912198040°30'18.4"N75°8'23.1"W
Beaver Run Road---------
Clay Ridge Road756612 metres (39 ft)11Concrete arch-deck1909-40°29'3.6"N75°8'38.75"W

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References

  1. ↑ MacReynolds, George, Place Names in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Doylestown, Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, PA, 1942, P17.
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Beaver Creek
  3. ↑ http://www.lycoming.edu/cwi/pdfs/paGazetterOfStreams.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  4. ↑ "GNIS Feature Search". TNM download. U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Pennsylvania Geological Survey". PaGEODE. Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Archived from the original on April 11, 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
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