Back Creek
Back Creek is a stream in Mercer County, Delaware River Region, New Jersey. Back Creek is situated nearby to the hamlet Yardville Heights, as well as near Sylvan Glen.Places of Interest
Highlights include Duck Island and Garden State Youth Correctional Facility.
Duck Island
Island
Duck Island is a peninsula and former island in the wetlands at the confluence of the Delaware River and Crosswicks Creek in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Duck Island is situated 1½ miles west of Back Creek.
Garden State Youth Correctional Facility
Prison
Garden State Youth Correctional Facility is a New Jersey Department of Corrections state prison that houses young adult offenders ages 18-30, located in the Crosswicks section of Chesterfield Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. Garden State Youth Correctional Facility is situated 2 miles southeast of Back Creek.
Bordentown Regional High School
School
Bordentown Regional High School is a comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from five communities in northern Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Bordentown Regional School District. Bordentown Regional High School is situated 2 miles south of Back Creek.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yardville Heights and Trenton Gardens.
Yardville Heights
Hamlet
Yardville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the CDP's population was 6,965.
Trenton Gardens
Hamlet
Hamilton Township is a township and the most populous municipality in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is the largest suburb of Trenton, the state's capital, which is located to the township's west.
Groveville
Suburb
Groveville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Hamilton Township, in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Groveville is situated 1½ miles southeast of Back Creek.
Back Creek
- Type: Stream
- Category: body of water
- Location: Mercer County, Delaware River Region, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.18287° or 40° 10′ 58″ north
Longitude
-74.69517° or 74° 41′ 43″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
87G758M3+4W
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