page_title: Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River tributary)
section_title: Dams
hierarchical_section_title: Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River tributary) / Hydrology / Dams
caption_attribution_description: English: Boone's Dam on Fishing Creek near Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
context_page_description: Fishing Creek is a 29.98-mile long tributary of the Susquehanna River in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It joins the Susquehanna River near the census-designated place of Rupert and the town of Bloomsburg. The watershed has an area of 385 square miles.
  Nomadic Native Americans arrived in the lower reaches of Fishing Creek around 8000 BCE, and some were spending winters in the upper reaches of the valley by 3000 to 2000 BCE. In the past few centuries, the Fishing Creek area has been home to many industries, mills, and dams. It drains parts of five Pennsylvania counties: Columbia, Montour, Sullivan, Luzerne, and Lycoming. The creek's main tributaries include Hemlock Creek, Little Fishing Creek, Green Creek, Huntington Creek, West Branch Fishing Creek, and East Branch Fishing Creek.
  Public recreation activities include canoeing, birdwatching, and fishing. The creek is known for its trout population, which includes brook, brown and rainbow trout; it also contains many other species of fish. Northern hardwood trees and ruffed grouse live in the surrounding area.
context_section_description: There are five dams on Fishing Creek. The lowhead dam called Boone's Dam is the furthest downstream, in Montour Township. It is 4.5 feet (1.4 m) high and 253 feet (77 m) long. Further upstream is the Diverting Dam, a 2-foot (0.6-meter) high and 100-foot (31-meter) long dam in Bloomsburg. It was built to power the nearby Irondale furnaces. A 380-foot (120 m) wide and 5-foot (1.5 m) high unnamed dam is on the creek further upstream, in Mount Pleasant Township. The uppermost dams are the 130-foot (40 m) wide and 11-foot (3.4 m) high Benton Dam and the 150-foot (46 m) wide and 6-foot (1.8 m) high Mill Dam, which are in Benton Township and Benton. Additionally, the Jonestown Dam is on the tributary Huntington Creek in Jonestown. This dam is 8 feet (2.4 m) high and 120 feet (37 m) wide.
caption: Boone's Dam near Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
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