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Wysox Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in
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, in the United States. It is approximately long and flows through Windham Township, Orwell Township, Rome Township, and Wysox Township. It is possible to canoe on part of the creek's length.


Course

Wysox Creek begins on a hill in Windham Township. It flows east for a short distance and leaves the hill. The creek then turns south and flows through a valley for several miles, flowing parallel to
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. It eventually enters Orwell Township, where it receives the tributary Trout Brook and flows through North Orwell and Russelville. Several miles downstream, the creek picks up the tributary Trout Stream and turns southwest, still flowing parallel to Pennsylvania Route 187 in its valley. It eventually enters
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, where it receives Parks Creek and passes through the community of
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. Downstream of Rome, the creek turns south-southwest and picks up Ballard Creek. Some distance downstream, it enters Wysox Township, where it continues southwest and south-southwest. It receives several more tributaries before crossing
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and reaching its confluence with the Susquehanna River. Wysox Creek joins the Susquehanna River upstream of its mouth.


Watershed and geography

The watershed of Wysox Creek has an area of . There are some strainers on Wysox Creek. There are also gravel bar
riffle A riffle is a shallow landform in a flowing channel. Colloquially, it is a shallow place in a river where water flows quickly past rocks. However, in geology a riffle has specific characteristics. Topographic, sedimentary and hydraulic indica ...
s on the creek. It flows through a flat and narrow valley and for much of its length flows through forested
floodplain A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.Goudi ...
s.


Recreation

It is possible to
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on of Wysox Creek during
snowmelt In hydrology, snowmelt is surface runoff produced from melting snow. It can also be used to describe the period or season during which such runoff is produced. Water produced by snowmelt is an important part of the annual water cycle in many par ...
or within several days of heavy
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. The difficulty rating of the creek is 1+. Edward Gertler describes its scenery as "good" in his book ''Keystone Canoeing''.


See also

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References

{{authority control Rivers of Pennsylvania Tributaries of the Susquehanna River Rivers of Bradford County, Pennsylvania