Lockatong Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map , accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Delaware River in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. Its source is near Quakertown in Franklin Township. It flows into the Delaware River via an overflow spillway after entering the feeder canal of the Delaware and Raritan Canal in Delaware Township, midway between Raven Rock and Stockton.
Lockatong is derived of a Munsee phrase — lokatink, or “place of wheat meal".Grumet, Robert. Manhattan to Minisink: American Indian Place Names of Greater New York and Vicinity, University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.
See also List of rivers of New Jersey Strimple's Mill Road Bridge over Lockatong Creek
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U.S. Geological Survey: NJ stream gaging stations