Pocono Creek is a 15.8-mile-long (25.4 km)[1] tributary of Brodhead Creek in the Poconos of eastern Pennsylvania in the United States.[2]

Pocono Creek joins Brodhead Creek in Stroudsburg.[2]

Pocono is a Native American name purported to mean "a stream between two mountains".[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
  2. 1 2 Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
  3. ↑ Espenshade, Abraham Howry (1925). Pennsylvania Place Names. Evangelical Press. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-8063-0416-8.

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