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15-499: A source stream via Black Creek in Carbon County that originates in southern Luzerne County on the east side of the saddle of an important mountain pass , which hosts a transportation infrastructure corridor, this creek's source area is located within the east-side neighborhoods of Hazleton, Pennsylvania . The entire city is low lying relative to the surrounding mountainous Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians and historically

30-564: The Beaver Meadow Railroad , an 1830 predecessor railway to (purchased in 1855 by the newly formed) Lehigh Valley Railroad corporation (LV or LVRR), which grew to be a famous Class I railway. The banks-side footpath from the Lehigh River at the 19th century settlement of Lausanne Landing climbed the steep south slopes of Broad Mountain and followed a chain of watercourses to Nescopeck opposite Shickshinny, PA on

45-471: The Lehigh Gap was heavily forested with low-lying areas generally being swampy pinewood forests. Hazle Creek's source springs originate in the terrain along the upper edge of the Lehigh River drainage basin , TBDL ft above its mouth, and TBDL above mean sea level. Hazle Creek flows from its headwaters near Hazleton to its mouth near Weatherly. Due to underground mining, most of the surface drainage in

60-634: The United States ,. Its waters start at the very south edge of Weatherly, Pennsylvania at the confluence of Beaver and Hazle Creeks, then runs nearly due east to its mouth on the Lehigh River in Maple Hollow at the former railroad depot of Penn Haven Junction just east of Hinkles Valley . The confluence was a waypoint along the 19th-century Lehigh & Susquehanna Turnpike Black Creek has two major tributaries joining within Weatherly,

75-521: The 7 miles (11 km) long Beaver Creek (Carbon County) The tributary Quakake Creek , is the more dispersed and disorganized source waters, originating in over half-a-dozen small streams; it is also listed by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) as a variant name for Black Creek. Black Creek was named because of the because of the dark background pigment in the water created by anthracite coal, but this

90-755: The Hazleton Basin has been destroyed. Surface water infiltrates into the underlying minepool through abandoned strip mines. Initially part of the terrain traversed by the Amerindian trail known to white settlers as the "Warriors' Path", the creek's water gap hosted an early crude wagon road, the Lausanne-Nescopeck Road, which connected the Moravians in Bethlehem and the lower Luzerne County settlements of "Saint Anthony's Wilderness",

105-607: The earliest being those along the Nescopeck Creek in a village known as St. Johns in the late 1700s. The city of Hazleton sits astride the pass connecting the watershed of the Lehigh to the Susquehanna -drained tributaries along the west side of the borough . The stream runs generally south-southeast for about 6 miles (9.7 km), where it joins Beaver Creek to form Black Creek, the major regional tributary stream on

120-431: The earliest being those along the Nescopeck Creek in a village known as St. Johns in the late 1700s. The city of Hazleton sits astride the pass connecting the watershed of the Lehigh to the Susquehanna -drained tributaries along the west side of the borough . The stream runs generally south-southeast for about 6 miles (9.7 km), where it joins Beaver Creek to form Black Creek, the major regional tributary stream on

135-485: The east side of the saddle of an important mountain pass , which hosts a transportation infrastructure corridor, this creek's source area is located within the east-side neighborhoods of Hazleton, Pennsylvania . The entire city is low lying relative to the surrounding mountainous Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians and historically was known as the "Great Swamp" and other names with either wilderness or swamp being appended—the whole area extending over 20 miles (32 km) to

150-694: The main Susquehanna branch. Initially, in 1830, the Beaver Meadow mining operations sent coal out by pack mules, but then capitalized the railway, when the technology was emergent and untried. Consequently, the creek hosted the first operating steam locomotives employed as mobile traction engines in the United States. Black Creek joins the Lehigh River near the community of Rockport , the closest occupied place to Penn Haven Junction in

165-641: The midst of the rough terrain of the Lehigh River Gorge . 40°56′43″N 75°44′48″W  /  40.9454°N 75.7467°W  / 40.9454; -75.7467 Hazel Creek (Lehigh River) Hazle Creek is an American tributary source stream of the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States. A source stream via Black Creek in Carbon County that originates in southern Luzerne County on

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180-489: The north side of the Broad Mountain barrier ridge . The banks of all three water courses host both automotive and rail roadbeds. 40°56′43″N 75°50′52″W  /  40.94532°N 75.84772°W  / 40.94532; -75.84772 Black Creek, Carbon County, Pennsylvania Black Creek is a 7.6-mile-long (12.2 km) brook tributary of the Lehigh River in Carbon County, Pennsylvania , in

195-467: The surface drainage in the Hazleton Basin has been destroyed. Surface water infiltrates into the underlying minepool through abandoned strip mines. Initially part of the terrain traversed by the Amerindian trail known to white settlers as the "Warriors' Path", the creek's water gap hosted an early crude wagon road, the Lausanne-Nescopeck Road, which connected the Moravians in Bethlehem and the lower Luzerne County settlements of "Saint Anthony's Wilderness",

210-529: Was a later development as its confluence origin and main course easterly became far more important hosting Railroad trackage than the Turnpike ever hoped to become. Historically, Black Creek was also known as Hazel Creek , stemming from the hazelnut trees that grew alongside its banks, though that name in the present-day is given a tributary of Beaver Creek closer to Beaver Meadows, PA. Black Creek, Beaver Creek and Weatherly are all historically related to

225-538: Was known as the "Great Swamp" and other names with either wilderness or swamp being appended—the whole area extending over 20 miles (32 km) to the Lehigh Gap was heavily forested with low-lying areas generally being swampy pinewood forests. Hazle Creek's source springs originate in the terrain along the upper edge of the Lehigh River drainage basin , TBDL ft above its mouth, and TBDL above mean sea level. Hazle Creek flows from its headwaters near Hazleton to its mouth near Weatherly. Due to underground mining, most of

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