Mantua Creek is a tributary of the Delaware River in Mantua Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey. Mantua Creek's headwaters are near Glassboro, flowing northwest for 18.6 miles (29.9 kilometers) to the Delaware River at the Port of Paulsboro in Paulsboro across from present-day Philadelphia International Airport.[1][2]
The name Mantua Creek is derived from a Native American word “Manta”, meaning frog, and was so named because of the remarkable chorus effect produced by abundant frogs in its watershed.[3] Mantua Creek and its two major tributaries, Edwards Run and Chestnut Branch, drain over 50 square miles (130 km2) of Gloucester County.[4]
- ^ NJ Hometown Locator: Mantua Creek, Gloucester County, accessed August 27, 2011.
- ^ South Jersey Land & Water Trust: Mantua Creek Watershed Facts Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine, accessed August 27, 2011.
- ^ Mantua Township Clerk’s Office: A Brief Tour of Mantua Township History Archived 2011-08-16 at the Wayback Machine, last modified on June 3, 2011, citing “A Bicentennial Look at Mantua Township”, presented to the Township on Memorial Day, May 31, 1976.
- ^ South Jersey Land & Water Trust, 2011, op.cit.
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