Beaver Creek in

Carbon County, Pennsylvania Carbon County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,749. The county is also part of Pennsylvania's Coal Region and Northeastern Pennsylvania. ...

is an east-to-west-running tributary of the

Lehigh River The Lehigh River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Delaware River in eastern Pennsylvania. The river flows in a generally southward pat ...

giving name to and draining the southern terrains of Beaver Meadows into Black Creek. It rises southeast of the intersection of Main Street and Lincoln CircleDistance 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. in Junedale, one unincorporated village (neighborhood) of Banks Township at the northwestern corner of

, and runs nearly due east-northeast through the center of

Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania Beaver Meadows is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 897 at the 2020 U.S. census. Geography Beaver Meadows is located in northwestern Carbon County at (40.928438, ...

to the approximate centerline of Weatherly, where it turns abruptly and runs due south 1.25 miles through the center of Weatherly, where, from its source, it merges with

Hazle Creek Hazle Creek is a tributary source stream of the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers, via Black Creek, Carbon County, which originates in southern Luzerne County on the east side of the saddle of an important mountain pass hosting a transportation infrast ...

, thereby forming Black Creek,

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, which turns abruptly east from its origin. __TOC__

History of the region

The streams played a large role in the development of the

Province of Pennsylvania The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn after receiving a land grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania ("Penn's Woods") refers to W ...

as a turnpike was constructed from Lausanne along Black Creek and Beaver Creek, north from

to the

Susquehanna River The Susquehanna River (; Lenape: Siskëwahane) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, overlapping between the lower Northeast and the Upland South. At long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the ...

, and the developing Industrializing United States, as a 19th-century transportation corridor hosting the

Beaver Meadows Railroad The Beaver Meadow Railroad & Coal Company (BMRC) was chartered April 7, 1830, to build a railroad from the mines near Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania, beyond Broad Mountain along Beaver Creek to Penn Haven and along the Lehigh River through Mauch ...

connecting Beaver Meadows via Weatherly and Penn Haven Junction to the

Lehigh Canal The Lehigh Canal, or the Lehigh Navigation Canal, is a navigable canal that begins at the mouth of Nesquehoning Creek on the Lehigh River in eastern Pennsylvania. It was built in two sections over a span of twenty years, beginning in 1818. The low ...

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Tributaries of the Lehigh River Rivers of Pennsylvania Rivers of Carbon County, Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-river-stub

History of the region

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