Jordan Creek (Pennsylvania)
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| Jordan Creek | |
 Jordan Creek in Allentown, Pennsylvania
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Lehigh |
| City | Allentown, Pennsylvania |
| Source | |
| - location | Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County |
| - coordinates | 40°44′01″N 75°44′08″W / 40.73361°N 75.73556°W [1] |
| Mouth | Little Lehigh Creek |
| - location | Allentown, Lehigh County |
| - coordinates | 40°36′04″N 75°27′41″W / 40.60111°N 75.46139°W [1] |
| Length | 34.1 mi (54.9 km) [2] |
| Basin | 75.8 sq mi (196.3 km2) [3] |
| Discharge | for Allentown |
| - average | 157 cu ft/s (4.45 m3/s) [3] |
| - max | 1,390 cu ft/s (39.36 m3/s) |
| - min | 8.7 cu ft/s (0.25 m3/s) |
Jordan Creek is a 34.1-mile-long (54.9 km)[2] tributary of the Little Lehigh Creek in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
Jordan Creek joins Little Lehigh Creek in the city of Allentown, before soon flowing into the Lehigh River. It drains an area of 75.8 square miles (196 km2).[3]
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- ^ a b "Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - Jordan Creek". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ a b The National Map "National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
- ^ a b c "USGS Current Conditions for USGS 01452000 Jordan Creek at Allentown, PA". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
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