Plunketts Creek Township, Pennsylvania
Plunketts Creek Township is a township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. It includes the villages of Barbours and Proctor. The population was 595 at the 2020 census, down from 684 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Williamsport Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The general store in Proctor
Pluketts Creek Township and the Loyalsock Creek valley (from the Doe Pen Vista in Rider Park).
Plunketts Creek cutting through Camp Mountain in the village of Proctor: the creek's ecosystem has recovered since it was a tannery's waste disposal system, from 1868 to 1898.
The confluence of Plunketts Creek (foreground) with the much larger Loyalsock Creek in the village of Barbours.
Plunketts Creek (Loyalsock Creek tributary)
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".