Yards Creek Generating Station
Yards Creek Generating Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in Blairstown and Hardwick Township in Warren County, New Jersey, United States.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Mohican and Sunfish Pond.
Mount Mohican
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Mohican, or Raccoon Ridge, is a peak of the Kittatinny Mountains in Warren County, New Jersey, United States. The mountain stands 1,580 feet in height. It lies along the Appalachian Trail in Worthington State Forest. Mount Mohican is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Yards Creek Generating Station.
Sunfish Pond
Pond
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sunfish Pond is a 44-acre glacial lake surrounded by a 258-acre hardwood forest located on the Kittatinny Ridge within Worthington State Forest, adjacent to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Warren County, New Jersey. Sunfish Pond is situated 2 miles west of Yards Creek Generating Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jacksonburg and Shawnee on Delaware.
Jacksonburg
Hamlet
Blairstown is a township in Warren County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 5,704, a decrease of 263 from the 2010 census count of 5,967, which in turn reflected an increase of 220 from the 5,747 counted in the 2000 census. Jacksonburg is situated 2½ miles east of Yards Creek Generating Station.
Shawnee on Delaware
Photo: JamesPFisherIII, CC BY 3.0.
Shawnee on Delaware is an unincorporated community in the Poconos and Endless Mountains region of Pennsylvania.
Paulina
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Paulina is an unincorporated community located in Blairstown in Warren County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Paulina is located on the Paulins Kill, approximately 1 mi east of downtown Blairstown. Paulina is situated 5 miles east of Yards Creek Generating Station.
Yards Creek Generating Station
- Type: Power station
- Description: dam in Blairstown, New Jersey
- Categories: pumped-storage power station and industry
- Location: Blairstown Township, Warren County, Skylands, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.00082° or 41° 0′ 3″ northLongitude
-75.03165° or 75° 1′ 54″ westInception
September 1965Operator
FirstEnergyOpen location code
87H62X29+88OpenStreetMap ID
way 419361417Wikidata ID
Q12010951
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Norwegian to Ukrainian—“Yards Creek Generating Station” goes by many names.
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yards Creek vannkraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Yards Creek vannkraftverk”
- Ukrainian: “ГАЕС Yards Creek”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Large Pile of Rocks and Scenic Overlook - Delaware River and Reservoir.
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