Wallpack Ridge (or Walpack Ridge) is a mountain located in the

Ridge and Valley Appalachians The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, also called the Ridge and Valley Province or the Valley and Ridge Appalachians, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands division. The physiographic province is divided into three sec ...

physiographic province physiographic province is a geographic region with a characteristic geomorphology, and often specific subsurface rock type or structural elements. The continents are subdivided into various physiographic provinces, each having a specific characte ...

in Sussex County in northwestern

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. Oriented northeast to southwest, Wallpack Ridge spans from Montague Township south of

Port Jervis, New York Port Jervis, named after John Bloomfield Jervis, a Roman civil engineer who oversaw the construction of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, is a city located at the confluence of the Neversink and Delaware rivers in western Orange County, New York, ...

to the Walpack Bend in the

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near Flatbrookville in Walpack Township. It is a narrow ridge ranging between to in width, and its highest elevation reaches above sea level.Witte, Ron W., and Monteverde Don H. "Karst in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area" fro
Unearthing New Jersey
(Newsletter) Vol. 2 No. 1 Winter 2006. (Trenton: New Jersey Geological Survey, Department of Environmental Protection, 2006). The ridge separates the Wallpack Valley from the valley of the

(also known as the

Minisink The Minisink or (more recently) Minisink Valley is a loosely defined geographic region of the Upper Delaware River valley in northwestern New Jersey (Sussex and Warren counties), northeastern Pennsylvania ( Pike and Monroe counties) and New York ...

or Minisink Valley), and contains the watershed of the

Flat Brook Flat Brook, also spelled as Flatbrook, is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Delaware River in Sussex County, New Jersey in the United S ...

and its main tributaries

Big Flat Brook Big Flat Brook is the name of Flat Brook upstream of the inflow of Little Flat Brook, a tributary of the Delaware River, in Sussex County, New Jersey in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ''Garden State Canoeing'', Seneca Press, 2002. Big Flat ...

and

Little Flat Brook Little Flat Brook is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of Flat Brook in Sussex County, New Jersey in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ''Garden S ...

.Witte, Ron W., and Monteverde Don H
"Geological History of New Jersey's Ridge and Valley Physiographic Province"
(Trenton, New Jersey: New Jersey Geological and Water Survey. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 2012). A controversial project to build a hydroelectric dam and reservoir on the Delaware River in the 1950s and 1960s led to government's seizure of land in northwestern New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania under the authority of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The construction of the dam would have created a lake reservoir that would have flooded the Walpack Valley. For political and geological reasons, the dam project was deauthorized and the land transferred to the management of the

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for the establishment of a National Recreation Area.Feiveson, Harold; Sinden, Frank; and Socolow, Robert. ''Boundaries of Analysis: an Inquiry Into the Tocks Island Dam Controversy.'' (1976); Albert, Richard C. ''Damming the Delaware: The Rise and Fall of Tocks Island Dam'' (State College, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987). Currently, Wallpack Ridge is located in the

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area is a national recreation area administered by the National Park Service in northwest New Jersey and northeast Pennsylvania. It is centered around a stretch of the Delaware River designated the ...

that was established by the National Park Service in 1978.

References

{{authority control Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Landforms of Sussex County, New Jersey Ridges of New Jersey

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