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Housing Units (2000): 437
Land area (2000): 0.835476 sq. miles (2.163873 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.835476 sq. miles (2.163873 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59950
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.668676 N, 97.801944 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73766
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Headwords:
Pond Creek
Wikipedia
Pond Creek may refer to:
- Pond Creek (Little Wapwallopen Creek), in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
- Pond Creek, Oklahoma, a city in USA
- Pond Creek, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in USA
- Pond Creek (West Virginia), a stream in USA
- Pond Creek National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas, USA
- Pond Creek Station, stagecoach station in Wallace, Kansas, USA
- Ponds Creek, a creek in New South Wales, Australia
Pond Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River, long, in western West Virginia in the United States. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.
Pond Creek flows for most of its length in southern Wood County; its watershed also drains a portion of northern Jackson County. It rises south of Rockport and flows generally west-northwestward through the unincorporated communities of Lowdell, Jerrys Run, and Flinn. East of Flinn and again near its mouth, the creek briefly enters Jackson County. It flows into the Ohio River on the boundary of Jackson and Wood counties, at the community of Pond Creek.
Downstream of Flinn it collects Little Pond Creek from the south. Little Pond Creek flows in Jackson County for most of its course, northwestward through the communities of Willowdale and Topins Grove.
According to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, approximately 82% of the Pond Creek watershed is forested, mostly deciduous. Approximately 18% is used for pasture and agriculture.
Pond Creek (also known as Long Pond Creek) is a tributary of Little Wapwallopen Creek in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately long and flows though Slocum Township and Conyngham Township. The watershed of the creek has an area of and is part of the Lower North Branch Susquehanna drainage basin. A bridge was built over the creek in 1956. In the early 1900s, the Glen Brook Water Company planned to construct a dam on the creek. The surficial geology in the vicinity of Pond Creek includes Wisconsinan Till, alluvium, boulder alluvium, alluvial fan, and bedrock consisting of sandstone and shale, as well as some patches of wetland.