| Pequest River | |
|---|---|
 Headwaters of the Pequest near Springdale, in Andover Township, New Jersey | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States of America |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Stickles Pond, Newton, New Jersey |
| • coordinates | 41°01′50″N 74°45′12″W / 41.03056°N 74.75333°W |
| • elevation | 668 feet (204 m)[2] |
| Mouth | |
• location | Delaware River at Belvidere, New Jersey |
• coordinates | 40°49′44″N 75°04′59″W / 40.82889°N 75.08306°W |
| Length | 35.7 miles (57.5 km)[1] |
| Basin size | 162.62 square miles (421.2 km2)[4] |
| Discharge | |
| • average | ? at Blairstown, New Jersey[3] |
The Pequest River is a 35.7-mile-long (57.5 km)[1] tributary of the Delaware River in the Skylands Region in northwestern New Jersey in the United States.[5]
The Pequest, Native American for "open land,"[5] drains an area of 162.62 square miles (421.2 km2) across Sussex and Warren counties, consisting of ten municipalities.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
- ^ http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri934076/stations/01443500.html accessed 24 August 2006.
- ^ http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nj/nwis/current/?type=flow accessed 24 August 2006.
- ^ http://www.state.nj.us/drbc/Flood_Website/floodclaims_reference.htm Archived 2006-08-29 at the Wayback Machine accessed 24 August 2006.
- ^ a b Gertler, Edward. Garden State Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2002. ISBN 0-9605908-8-9