Pequawket Brook

Coordinates: 43°59′3″N 71°7′28″W / 43.98417°N 71.12444°W / 43.98417; -71.12444
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Pequawket Brook
Pequawket Brook near its outlet from Pequawket Pond in Conway, NH
Pequawket Brook is located in New Hampshire
Pequawket Brook
Pequawket Brook is located in the United States
Pequawket Brook
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew Hampshire
CountyCarroll
TownsMadison, Albany, Conway
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationMadison
 • coordinates43°54′36″N 71°10′0″W / 43.91000°N 71.16667°W / 43.91000; -71.16667
 • elevation510 ft (160 m)
MouthSwift River
 • location
Conway
 • coordinates
43°59′3″N 71°7′28″W / 43.98417°N 71.12444°W / 43.98417; -71.12444
 • elevation
445 ft (136 m)
Length6.4 mi (10.3 km)
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • leftCream Brook
 • rightBanfield Brook, Page Randall Brook

Pequawket Brook is a 6.4-mile-long (10.3 km)

White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States. It lies within the watershed of the Saco River, which flows to the Atlantic Ocean in Maine
. The brook is under the jurisdiction of the New Hampshire Comprehensive Shoreland Protection Act.

Pequawket Brook rises in the town of

Swift River
, just one-half mile above the confluence with the Saco River.

New Hampshire Route 113 follows the brook in northern Madison. NH-16 follows the brook from NH-113 to Conway village.

The

Conway Branch
rail line follows the brook and ponds.

See also

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