This inventory identifies each township’s most prominent hills, their elevations, and the nature of the bedrock forming the hill. Hills listed here are the named hills named on 1:24,000-scale United States Geological Survey topographic maps. Many Bucks County townships contained no named hills and if none were found that is indicated here Bedminster Township Relief […]
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Figure 1: Buckingham Mountain region in Bucks County, PA. United States Geological Survey topographic map digitally presented using National Geographic TOPO software. Buckingham Mountain in Bucks County is a high southwest-to-northeast oriented ridge (more than 500 feet at its highest point while surrounding landscape elevations are in the 200-300 foot range). According to the Pennsylvania […]
Figure 1: Jericho Mountain in Bucks County, PA. Bowman Hill is located north of the Jericho Mountain northeast end. The Delaware River flows in a southeast direction across the figure 1 northeast corner. Jericho Creek flows in an east-southeast and east-northeast direction along the Jericho Mountain south flank. Pidcock Creek drains the area north of […]
Figure 1: Solebury Mountain in Bucks County, PA. The Delaware River flows in a south and southeast direction in a water gap eroded between Solebury Mountain and Goat Hill. United States Geological Survey topographic map digitally presented using National Geographic TOPO software. Solebury Mountain is a high ridge (more than 480 feet at its highest […]
Figure 1: Bowman Hill at Washington Crossing Historic Park. The Delaware River flows in a southeast direction in the water gap it eroded between Bowman Hill and Belle Mountain. United States Geological Survey topographic map digitally presented using National Geographic TOPO software. Bowman Hill is a high point (over 400 feet while the adjacent Delaware […]
Sandy Run originates in Roslyn and flows in a west direction along the Camp Hill ridge south flank or the Whitemarsh Valley north side toward the south oriented Wissahickon Creek, but instead of continuing in a west direction Sandy Run turns abruptly at the Sandy Run Elbow of Capture to flow in a north direction […]
Two adjacent water gaps can be seen just south of Fort Washington. The first, the Wissahickon Water Gap, is where Wissahickon Creek flows in a south direction between Fort Hill (east) and Militia Hill (west). The second, the Sandy Run Water Gap, is where Sandy Run turns from flowing in a west direction to flow […]
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