Tunkhannock Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)

Tunkhannock Creek
Tunkhannock Creek looking upstream near Nicholson, Pennsylvania
Basin features
Main source	Jackson Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
River mouth	Susquehanna River in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania 41°32′09″N 75°56′48″W / 41.5357°N 75.9467°W / 41.5357; -75.9467Coordinates: 41°32′09″N 75°56′48″W / 41.5357°N 75.9467°W / 41.5357; -75.9467
Progression	Tunkhannock Creek → Susquehanna River → Chesapeake Bay
Basin size	413 sq mi (1,070 km2)
Tributaries	Left: Rock Creek, Bear Swamp Creek, East Branch Tunkhannock Creek, South Branch Tunkhannock Creek Right: Bell Creek, Nine Partners Creek, Partners Creek, Tower Branch, Millard Creek, Utley Brook, Martins Creek, Horton Creek, Field Brook, Monroe Creek, Oxbow Creek, Billings Mill Brook, Swale Brook
Physical characteristics
Length	42.3 mi (68.1 km)

Tunkhannock Creek is a 42.3-mile-long (68.1 km)tributary of the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania, United States.

English translations of the Lenni-Lenape Tunkhannock vary, including "meeting of the waters", "small stream", "wilderness stream", and "wooded stream". Most sources note, however, that hanna, as in Susque-, Toby-, Loyal-, Tunkhannock, and Lackawanna, suggests "moving water."

Tunkhannock Creek is traced northeast along PA Highway 92 to its source of Cheraine Pond near Jackson. It has an East Branch that rises in Herrick Township to the east and north of Elk Mountain and a South Branch that rises near Montdale in Scott Township. Tunkhannock Creek's major tributaries include, Nine Partners Creek, East Branch Tunkhannock Creek Horton Creek, Martins Creek, Hop Bottom Creek, and East Branch Tunkhannock Creek.

The 2,400-foot-long (730 m) Erie Lackawanna Railway Tunkhannock Viaduct (called locally the "Nicholson Bridge"), featuring high, multiple concrete arches, passes over the creek near Nicholson.