Bound Brook is a

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of the

Raritan River Raritan River is a major river of New Jersey. Its watershed drains much of the mountainous area of the central part of the state, emptying into the Raritan Bay on the Atlantic Ocean. History Geologists assert that the lower Raritan provided t ...

Middlesex County, New Jersey Middlesex County is located in central New Jersey, United States, extending inland from the Raritan Valley region to the northern portion of the Jersey Shore. As of the 2020 United States Census, the county's population was enumerated at 863, ...

, in the

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. Its name comes from a

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in an

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. The stream is referred to as Sacunk, a Native American name meaning "slow sluggish stream", on early maps of the area.The story of an old farm: or, Life in New Jersey in the eighteenth ..., Part 1, p. 169; By Andrew D. Mellick
/ref> It rises in Edison (near

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and County Route 501) and flows through the Dismal Swamp. It then flows through South Plainfield and the

Cedar Brook Cedar Brook is a tributary of Cranbury Brook in Cranbury, New Jersey, United States. Course Cedar Brook starts at , near Exit 8A on the New Jersey Turnpike. It flows southwest, crossing Applegarth Road and Prospect Plains Road before crossing ...

joins it southwest of Spring Lake. It continues through

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into New Market Pond, through

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in neighbour ...

where it flows into the

Green Brook Green Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ''Garden State Canoeing'', Seneca Press, 2002. Course The Green Brook rises in the Watchung Mountains at an elevation of 410 feet in ...

at the northwest corner of Mountain View Park. It gives its name to the borough of

Bound Brook, New Jersey Bound Brook is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, located along the Raritan River. At the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 10,402,Ambrose Brook Ambrose Brook is a tributary of Green Brook in Middlesex County, New Jersey in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ''Garden State Canoeing'', Seneca Press, 2002. It rises underneath Route 27 in Edison. It then flows into Lake Papaianni. It con ...

** Bonygutt Brook ** Stony Brook ** Blue Brook

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U.S. Geological Survey: NJ stream gaging stations
{{authority control Rivers of Middlesex County, New Jersey Tributaries of the Raritan River Rivers of New Jersey Bound Brook, New Jersey

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