Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3
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Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3 was a rubble masonry stone arch bridge over Plunketts Creek in Plunketts Creek Township, Lycoming County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It was built between 1840 and 1875, probably closer to 1840, when the road along the creek between the unincorporated villages of Barbours and Proctor was constructed. Going upstream from the mouth, the bridge was the third to cross the creek, hence its name.
View from southeast in January 1996, with flood damage
View northeast across the bridge to State Game Lands No. 134 in January 1996 (the bridge was already closed by flood damage then)
Cracks in the parapet and roadbed of the bridge after the January 1996 flood; this and other damage led to the bridge's demolition in March of that year.
The intact bridge as seen from the south in summer, with a person on it for size and scale
Plunketts Creek (Loyalsock Creek tributary)
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Plunketts Creek is an approximately 6.2-mile-long (10 km) tributary of Loyalsock Creek in Lycoming and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Two unincorporated villages and a hamlet are on the creek, and its watershed drains 23.6 square miles (61 km2) in parts of five townships. The creek is a part of the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin via Loyalsock Creek and the West Branch Susquehanna and Susquehanna Rivers.
Plunketts Creek looking upstream, just north of the mouth in Plunketts Creek Township
The confluence of Plunketts Creek (foreground) with the much larger Loyalsock Creek in the village of Barbours.
Stream bank erosion and landslide north of Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 2, from the September 2011 flood
All of Plunketts Creek (here near the source in Hoppestown) is a "high quality cold water fishery".