Salt Lick Creek (Susquehanna River tributary)

For other uses, see Saltlick Creek.

Salt Lick Creek^[1] is an 11.1-mile-long (17.9 km)^[2] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania in the United States.^[3]

Salt Lick Creek rises at the outlet of Page Lake at the village of Lakeside in New Milford Township and flows northwest to the borough of New Milford, then turns north and joins the Susquehanna at the borough of Hallstead. Interstate 81 and U.S. Route 11 follow the creek from New Milford to the Susquehanna River.

This north-flowing section of Salt Lick Creek follows the "Summit Sluiceway", a gently-sloping 24-mile long channel formed by glacial erosion during the Pleistocene epoch. On the other side of New Milford, Martins Creek follows the Summit Sluiceway south into Tunkhannock Creek.^[4]

See also

• List of rivers of Pennsylvania

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Salt Lick Creek (Susquehanna River tributary)
2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed August 8, 2011
3. Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
4. BRAUN, Duane D. ""Phoebe Snow" and the ice sheets: how the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad adapted its Scranton-to-Binghamton route to a glacially modified landscape, northeastern Pennsylvania and south-central New York". Pa DCNR. Archived from the original on May 24, 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2016.

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