Jordan Creek (Pennsylvania)

Jordan Creek Hollenbach in Pennsylvania Dutch language
Jordan Creek in Allentown in January 2007
Location
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Lehigh
City	Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County
• coordinates	40°44′01″N 75°44′08″W[3]
Mouth	Little Lehigh Creek
• location	Allentown, Lehigh County
• coordinates	40°36′04″N 75°27′41″W[3]
Length	34.1 mi (54.9 km)[1]
Basin size	75.8 sq mi (196 km^2)[2]
Discharge
• location	Allentown[2]
• average	157 cu ft/s (4.4 m^3/s)[2]
• minimum	8.7 cu ft/s (0.25 m^3/s)
• maximum	1,390 cu ft/s (39 m^3/s)

Jordan Creek (Pennsylvania Dutch: Hollenbach) is a 34.1-mile-long (54.9 km)^[1] tributary of Little Lehigh Creek in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.^[4]

Geography

Jordan Creek arises from a natural spring on Blue Mountain. The spring is located downhill from the Bake Oven Knob shelter on the Appalachian Trail in Heidelberg Township in Lehigh County. The water course then flows intermittently downhill past Mountain Road, carrying further south through Heidelberg Township and passing through the Trexler Nature Preserve in Schnecksville.

Jordan Creek joins Little Lehigh Creek in Allentown before soon flowing into the Lehigh River.^[4] It drains an area of 75.8 square miles (196 km²).^[2]

Along with Bethlehem, Egypt, and Emmaus, Jordan Creek is one several Lehigh Valley locations whose name was inspired by locations referenced in the Bible.^[5]

Tributaries

• Elk Ridge Run
• Haasadahl Creek
• Hegel's Run
• Macintosh Run
• Mill Creek
• Schantz Valley Creek
• Switzer Creek
• Thicket Run

See also

• List of rivers of Pennsylvania
• Trexler Nature Preserve

References

1. "National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data". The National Map. U.S. Geological Survey. Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
2. "USGS Current Conditions for USGS 01452000 Jordan Creek at Allentown, PA". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
3. "Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - Jordan Creek". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
4. Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
5. Theodore, Bevin (20 June 2008). "Nazareth's Repayment Day celebrates legend of Barony of Rose". Penn Live. The Patriot News. Archived from the original on 17 June 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2015.

External links

• Pennsylvania stream gaging stations at the United States Geological Survey