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Big Bushkill Creek

creek in Pennsylvania, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ4905404 ↗
Source-derived summary

Big Bushkill Creek (Bush Kill on federal maps) is a 30.1-mile-long (48.4 km) tributary of the Delaware River in the Pocono Mountains region of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

It originates from Pecks Pond 41.2808°N 75.0872°W / 41.2808; -75.0872 in Pike County. It flows south, entering Pickerel Lake and then into Beaver Run Pond. Most of the stream travels through Delaware State Forest before entering Monroe County. It is a prominent feature of Resica Falls Scout Reservation.

Bush Kill joins the Delaware River at the village of Bushkill.

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The public source identifies “Big Bushkill Creek” as creek in Pennsylvania, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bushkill, Creek and creek.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 85-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bushkill, Creek and creek providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4905404. Authority coordinates are 41.281, -75.087. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Big Bushkill Creek” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.