Lockatong Creek is a 15.6-mile-long (25.1 km)[1] tributary of the Delaware River in Hunterdon County, New Jersey in the United States.[2]

Lockatong is derived of a Munsee phrase — lokatink, or “place of wheat meal".[3]

See also

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 1, 2011
  2. Gertler, Edward. Garden State Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2002. ISBN 0-9605908-8-9
  3. Grumet, Robert. Manhattan to Minisink: American Indian Place Names of Greater New York and Vicinity, University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. ISBN 0-8061891-3-4

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