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Bear Creek is a 17.1-mile-long (27.5 km) [1] tributary of the Lehigh River in the Pocono Mountains in Northeastern Pennsylvania, [2] joining the Lehigh River at the Francis E. Walter Reservoir. See also
Bear Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] It is a tributary to the Allegheny River . Bear Creek was so named on account of the many bears which once were seen in the area.
The Francis E. Walter Dam is an embankment dam located in Bear Creek Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, U.S. Constructed in 1961 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, it spans the Lehigh River at its confluence with the tributary Bear Creek, creating the Francis E. Walter Reservoir. Although the dam was originally constructed for ...
Bear Creek Township was the site of a plane crash on May 21, 2000; it crashed while attempting to land at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport. As described by the BBC , the crash occurred in a "wooded area" of the township, near the intersection of Bear Creek Boulevard ( PA-Route 115 ) and the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania ...
Bear Creek is a tributary of the Salmon River in the Central Oregon Coast Range in the United States. It begins in the Siuslaw National Forest and flows generally northwest through Lincoln County to meet the river between Rose Lodge and Otis. Named tributaries from source to mouth are McMullen, Tarry, Southman, and Morton creeks. [3]
Miles Creek, which originates in Mariposa County, flows west through Merced County, past Planada, before terminating downstream from Highway 99 at its junction with Owens Creek near Roduner Dam.
The Bear Creek Wind Power Project is a wind farm located in Bear Creek Township near Wilkes-Barre in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA, with twelve Gamesa 2.0 MW wind turbines that began commercial operation in March 2006. [1] The wind farm has a combined total nameplate capacity of 24 MW, producing about 61.4 gigawatt-hours of electricity ...
Bear Creek Village is located at (41.181794, -75.752985 [ 6 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the borough has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.3 km 2 ), of which 1.9 square miles (5.0 km 2 ) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km 2 ), or 4.84%, is water.