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90 ft (27 m) Lake Nockamixon is a reservoir in southeastern Pennsylvania, United States, and the largest lake in Bucks County. It is formed by a dam on Tohickon Creek and is the centerpiece of Nockamixon State Park. Swimming is not allowed in the lake, but boating is popular. The park maintains a marina and a boat rental as well as three other ...
Celilo, flooded by Lake Celilo. Champoeg, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862. Copper, under Applegate Reservoir. Detroit, inundated by Detroit Lake and relocated. Dorena, flooded by Dorena Reservoir and relocated. Homestead, possibly under the Hells Canyon Reservoir. Linn City, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862. Orleans, destroyed by the ...
Tohickon Creek is a 29.5-mile-long (47.5 km) [1] tributary of the Delaware River. Located entirely in Bucks County, in southeastern Pennsylvania, it rises in Springfield Township and has its confluence with the Delaware at Point Pleasant. It is dammed to form Lake Nockamixon.
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A view of the lake near the boat rentals. Nockamixon State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 5,283 acres (2,138 ha) in Bedminster and Haycock Townships in northern Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The park is one of the most popular in southeastern Pennsylvania, with most tourists visiting in the summer months.
Lake Wallenpaupack is a reservoir in Northeastern Pennsylvania.After Raystown Lake, it is the second-largest lake contained entirely in Pennsylvania.It comprises 52 miles (84 kilometers) of shoreline, with a length of 13 miles (21 kilometers) and a maximum depth of 60 feet (18 meters), and has a surface area in excess of 5,700 acres (2,300 hectares).
Haycock Creek rises at an elevation of 590 feet (180 m) in Springfield Township northeast of the intersection of Winding Road and Mink Road and flows to the southeast. It then becomes the border of Haycock and Nockamixon Townships until it meets the lake at an elevation of 394 feet (120 m). Its confluence with the Tohickon in the lake is the ...
Haycock Mountain or known as Ghost Mountain[4] is a locally prominent hill with the highest summit in Bucks County. It rises above Nockamixon State Park, in the Delaware River drainage of southeastern Pennsylvania. [1] Early settlers named it simply for its "resemblance to a cock of hay."