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词条 Buck Creek (Delaware River tributary)
释义

  1. Statistics

  2. Course

  3. Municipalities

  4. Crossings and Bridges

  5. See also

  6. References

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Pennsylvania Route 332 (Yardley Newtown Road)
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Buck Creek is a tributary of the Delaware River, rising in Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and meeting its confluence at the Delaware River's 138.00 river mile.

Statistics

Buck Creek was entered into the Geographic Names Information System of the U.S. Geological Survey on 2 August 1979 as identification number 1170509,[1] U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey I.D. is 02944.[2]

Course

Mirror Lake Road passes between two small unnamed lakes at an elevation of {{convert|110|ft|m}}, the head waters of Buck Creek. The creek runs easterly for about {{convert|0.25|mile|km}} then turns northerly for about {{convert|0.5|mile|km}}, then slowly curves to the east receiving a unnamed tributary from the left, entering Yardley Borough, receiving Brock Creek from the right, then meeting with the Delaware River at its 138 river mile at an elevation of {{convert|33|ft|m}}, resulting in an average slope of {{convert|40.52|ft/mi|m/km}}.

Municipalities

  • Bucks County
    • Lower Makefield Township
    • Yardley Borough

Crossings and Bridges

Crossing NBI Number Length Lanes Spans Material/Design Built Reconstructed LatitudeLongitude
Mirror Lake Road---------
Pennsylvania Route 332 (Yardley Newtown Road)---------
Schultz Lane---------
North Main Street731320|m|ft}}22continuous concrete stringer/multi-beam or girder1931-40°14'38.9"N74°50'29"W
Pennsylvania Canal (Delaware Division)---------
Pennsylvania Route 32 (North Delaware Avenue, River Road)678421|m|ft}}21steel stringer/multi-beam or girder1932198040°14'42.5"N74°50'12.7"W

See also

  • List of rivers of Pennsylvania
  • List of rivers of the United States
  • List of Delaware River tributaries

References

1. ^http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1170509
2. ^http://www.lycoming.edu/cwi/pdfs/paGazetterOfStreams.pdf, page 39.

3 : Rivers of Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Rivers of Pennsylvania|Tributaries of the Delaware River

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