Musquapsink Brook is a
tributary
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of
Pascack Brook Pascack Brook is a tributary of the Hackensack River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
History
At least one late 18th-century map calls the brook "Great Pascack River." Its tributary Musquapsink Brook is shown as "Little Pascack River ...
in
Bergen County
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in the
United States
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.
The headwater lies within
Woodcliff Lake and runs south through
Hillsdale and into
Washington Township. There it runs into
Schlegel Lake
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before continuing south and east into
Westwood. In Westwood, it runs into
Bogert Pond before briefly turning north and joining the Pascack Brook at the border between Westwood and
River Vale
River Vale is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. River Vale is the easternmost municipality in an area of the county referred to as the Pascack Valley. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 9,6 ...
.
At least one late 18th-century map labels Musquapsink Brook "Little Pascack River" (the modern Pascack Brook is shown as "Great Pascack River").
See also
*
List of rivers of New Jersey
This is a list of streams and rivers of the U.S. state of New Jersey.
List of New Jersey rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers. There are also smaller streams (''i.e.,'' branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in t ...
References
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Rivers of Bergen County, New Jersey
Hackensack River
Pascack Valley
Rivers of New Jersey
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