Ten Mile Run (New Jersey)

Ten Mile Run
	Ten Mile Run crossing Canal Road, near its mouth at the Millstone River
	Map of local area showing Ten Mile Run (highlighted)
Country	United States
Physical characteristics
Main source	40°24′39″N74°35′27″W / 40.41083°N 74.59083°W
River mouth	39 ft (12 m); 40°27′28″N74°35′29″W / 40.45778°N 74.59139°W Coordinates: 40°27′28″N74°35′29″W / 40.45778°N 74.59139°W
Basin features
Progression	Millstone River, Raritan River, Atlantic Ocean

Last updated February 26, 2019

Ten Mile Run is a tributary of the Millstone River, draining an area in southern South Brunswick and southern Franklin Park, New Jersey in the United States.

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater, leading the water out into an ocean.

The Millstone River is a 38.6-mile-long (62.1 km) tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States.

South Brunswick is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 43,417, reflecting an increase of 5,683 (+15.1%) from the 37,734 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 11,942 (+46.3%) from the 25,792 counted in the 1990 Census.

Route 27 is a state highway in New Jersey, United States. It runs 38.53 mi (62.01 km) from U.S. Route 206 in Princeton, Mercer County northeast to an interchange with Route 21 and Broad Street in Newark, Essex County. The route passes through many communities along the way, including New Brunswick, Metuchen, Rahway, and Elizabeth. Route 27 is a two- to four-lane undivided highway for most of its length, passing through a variety of urban and suburban environments. It intersects many roads along the way, including Route 18 in New Brunswick, Interstate 287 in Edison, the Garden State Parkway in Woodbridge Township, Route 35 in Rahway, Route 28 in Elizabeth, and U.S. Route 22 in Newark. Route 27 crosses the Raritan River on the Albany Street Bridge, which connects Highland Park on the east with New Brunswick on the west.

Course

Ten Mile Run starts at 40°24′39″N74°35′27″W / 40.41083°N 74.59083°W / 40.41083; -74.59083 ,^[1] near the intersection of the Georgetown-Franklin Turnpike and Route 27. It crosses Route 27 and Gateway Boulevard. It then runs through the edge of a residential development and crosses New Road. It then joins several other tributaries that come from the development. It crosses Route 27 again, where it is marked with a sign. It follows a course roughly parallel to Bunker Hill Road and flows through Bunker Hill Golf Course. It crosses Butler Road and receives more tributaries. It flows through the T&C Preservation Land adjacent to the Delaware and Raritan Canal and drains into the Millstone River at 40°27′28″N74°35′29″W / 40.45778°N 74.59139°W / 40.45778; -74.59139 .^[1]

The Delaware and Raritan Canal is a canal in central New Jersey, United States, built in the 1830s, that served to connect the Delaware River to the Raritan River. It was an efficient and reliable means of transportation of freight between Philadelphia and New York City, especially coal from the anthracite fields in eastern Pennsylvania. The canal allowed shippers to cut many miles off the existing route from the Pennsylvania coal fields, down the Delaware, around Cape May, and up along the Atlantic Ocean coast to New York City.

Accessibility

Ten Mile Run is accessible by both road and trail in many places, such as the Bunker Hill Golf Course, the Bunker Hill Natural Area, the Ten Mile Run Greenway, and several others.

Animal life

Ten Mile Run is home to a multitude of small fishes with sizes ranging from 1 to 6 inches. It also is home to several frogs in the slow-moving places. Several crayfish may be found through baiting or diligent searching.

Terrain

Ten Mile Run is generally rocky. Its tributaries in the residential development are completely rocky and come from springs routed underground through storm drainage systems. Near Butler Road, the stream has natural floors, smooth rocks covering the streambed. They tend to be slippery from underwater plants. Some shale cliffs are present near the stream, similar to but smaller than the ones lining the Nine Mile Run. Farther downstream, sandy streambeds predominate.

Nine Mile Run, known as Ninemile Run according to the USGS GNIS, is a moderately large tributary of the Six Mile Run, one of the branches of the Millstone River, in central New Jersey in the United States.

Sister tributaries

Beden Brook, also Bedens Brook, Beden's Brook, or Beeden's Brook, is a tributary of the Millstone River in central New Jersey in the United States.

Cranbury Brook, also known as Cranberry Brook, is a tributary of the Millstone River in Middlesex and Monmouth Counties, New Jersey in the United States.

Devils Brook is a tributary of the Millstone River in central New Jersey in the United States.

Gallery

Ten Mile Run near its source, crossing Allston Road
Ten Mile Run crossing New Road
Ten Mile Run crossing New Road
A branch of the Ten Mile Run crossing New Road at Kingsley Park
A branch of the Ten Mile Run crossing New Road near Kingsley Park
Ten Mile Run crossing Route 27; viewed from a nearby pedestrian bridge
Ten Mile Run crossing Route 27, ten miles from the Raritan River crossing on Route 27
Ten Mile Run crossing Butler Road, in the Butler Road Natural Area
Ten Mile Run crossing Butler Road
Ten Mile Run crossing Canal Road, just before its mouth
Ten Mile Run crossing Canal Road
Frog perched on a ledge near the Ten Mile Run

Related Research Articles

Stony Brook, also known as Stoney Brook, is a tributary of the Millstone River in Hunterdon and Mercer counties, New Jersey, in the United States.

Rocky Brook is a tributary of the Millstone River in Monmouth and Mercer counties, New Jersey in the United States.

The Six Mile Run Reservoir Site, part of the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park, is located in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. It is adjacent to the Delaware and Raritan Canal. It covers 3,037 acres (12.29 km²). The reservoir plan was to flood the Six Mile Run watershed. The Six Mile Run is a tributary of the Millstone River that, with its tributaries, drains a large area in central Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey and western portions of North Brunswick and South Brunswick Townships in Middlesex County, New Jersey. It derives its name, along with other streams, from the distance early surveyors estimated it was from the point where the historic King's Highway left the Raritan River at New Brunswick to the point the roadway crossed the stream. The estimates were not very accurate but the stream names have remained in use ever since.

Royce Brook is a tributary of the Millstone River in Hillsborough and Manville, New Jersey in the United States.

Six Mile Run is a tributary of the Millstone River that drains a large area in central Franklin Township in Somerset County and as well western portions of North Brunswick and South Brunswick Townships in Middlesex County, New Jersey in the United States.

Oakeys Brook is a tributary of Lawrence Brook, a branch of the Raritan River in Middlesex County, New Jersey in the United States.

Middlebush Brook is a tributary of Six Mile Run in Somerset County, New Jersey in the United States.

Simonson Brook, also known as Sunonson Brook, is a tributary of the Millstone River in southern Franklin Park, Somerset County, New Jersey in the United States.

Heathcote Brook, also known as Heathcote Run, is a tributary of the Millstone River in central New Jersey in the United States.

Mile Run is a tributary of the Raritan River in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in the United States.

Little Bear Brook is a tributary of the Millstone River in Mercer County, New Jersey in the United States.

Harrys Brook, also known as the H. Greenlands Brook, is a tributary of the Millstone River in Mercer County, New Jersey in the United States.

Duck Pond Run is a tributary of the Stony Brook in Mercer County, New Jersey in the United States.

Randolph Brook is a tributary of the Millstone River in northern Franklin Park, New Jersey, United States.

Bear Brook is a tributary of the Millstone River in central New Jersey in the United States.

References

1 2 "USGS GNIS - Tenmile Run". USGS. Retrieved 10 June 2010.

External links

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[gnis-1] 1 2 "USGS GNIS - Tenmile Run". USGS. Retrieved 10 June 2010.