White Deer Hole Creek
White Deer Hole Creek is a 20.5-mile tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Clinton, Lycoming and Union counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The creek flows east in a valley of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians, through sandstone, limestone, and shale from the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian periods. The name is unique in the USGS Geographic Names Information System and on its maps of the United States.
About White Deer Hole Creek in brief
White Deer Hole Creek is a 20.5-mile tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Clinton, Lycoming and Union counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The creek flows east in a valley of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians, through sandstone, limestone, and shale from the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian periods. As of 2006, the creek and its 67. 2-square-mile watershed are relatively undeveloped, with 28. 4 percent of the watershed given to agriculture and 71. 6 percent covered by forest. There are opportunities in the watershed for canoeing, hunting, and camping, and trails for hiking and horseback riding. During World War II a Trinitrotoluene plant, which became a federal prison in 1952, was built in the creek’s watershed. Two etymologies have been suggested for the unusual name. According to Donehoo, it is a translation of the Lenape Woap-achtu-woalhen. It is Opauchtooalin on the earliest map showing the creek. In 1870 the name applied only to the section from the confluence with Spring Creek east to its mouth, while the main branch west of Spring Creek was called “South Creek”. In 2009 the name South Creek has disappeared, but there is still a road on the right bank of the creek in Gregg Township from near the mouth of Spring creek west to the county line. The name is unique in the USGS Geographic Names Information System and on its maps of the United States.
The source of White Deer Hole creek is in Crawford Township, just over the line of Clinton County. Both the western and the western half of the western tributaries flow through the Beartrap Hollow area. Going upstream they are named South Deer Ridge, First Gap, Second Gap, Third Gap, Fourth Gap and Fourth Gap. White Deer Deer Creek is the name for the White Deer valley, which is the next creek south of the source. The White Deer Creek name is the only name for White Deer Road, which runs through Crawford Township in Union County. It is about 130 miles northwest of Philadelphia and 165 miles east-northeast of Pittsburgh, about 165 miles south of Pittsburgh and about 150 miles east of the city of Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. It was named because ‘a white deer is said to have been killed at an early day in a low hole or pond of water that once existed where my father built his mill’ in 1789. In 1795 the creek served as the southern boundary of Lycoming County when it was formed on April 13, 1795. A logging railroad ran along the creek from 1901 to 1904 for timber clearcutting, and small-scale lumbering continues. In 1892, the 17-mile long and 8-mile wide White deer valley was just called ‘White Deer Deer valley’ by many in 1892.
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