Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of municipalities on the Delaware River and Delaware Bay from the confluence of the East Branch Delaware River and West Branch Delaware River downstream to the Atlantic Ocean. Since the river forms a state border for the entirety of its length (with the exception of Finns Point and Artificial Island ), its left and right banks ...
The Delaware–New Jersey border is actually at the easternmost river shoreline within the Twelve-Mile Circle of New Castle, rather than at mid-river, mid-channel or thalweg, so small portions of land lying west of the shoreline, but on the New Jersey side of the river, are pene-exclaves under the jurisdiction of Delaware. The rest of the ...
The Delaware River looking north above Walpack Bend near Walpack, New Jersey, where the river leaves the historic Minisink region, a buried valley eroded from the Marcellus Formation The watershed of the Delaware River drains an area of 14,119 square miles (36,570 km 2 ) and encompasses 42 counties and 838 municipalities in five U.S. states ...
A new map poster by Lisa Glover shows the contours of the Delaware River’s deepest point. Sales benefit the Upper Delaware Council.
Agricultural Ditch, Sussex County; Ake Ditch, Sussex County Alapocas Run, New Castle County [[Allabands Mill Stream (Isaac Branch tributary)|Allabands Mill Stream]], Kent County
Delaware Bay is the estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the northeast seaboard of the United States, lying between the states of Delaware and New Jersey. It is approximately 782 square miles (2,030 km 2 ) in area, [ 2 ] the bay's freshwater mixes for many miles with the saltwater of the Atlantic Ocean .
The Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River is a unit of the National Park Service designated under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. It stretches along 73.4 miles (118.1 km) of the Delaware River between Hancock, New York , and Sparrowbush, New York .
The county was created on September 26, 1789, from part of Chester County and named for the Delaware River. The county is part of the Southeast Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] Delaware County borders Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-most populous city, to its northeast.