Baker Branch Saint John River
Baker Branch Saint John River | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Maine |
Saint John River | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Sweeney Brook, Brailey Brook |
• right | Span Brook, Beaver Brook, Lost Pond Brook, Higgins Brook, Spruce Brook, Gray Brook, Campbell Brook, Turner Brook |
The Baker Branch Saint John River is a 48.0-mile-long (77.2 km)
Hydrography
The Baker Stream originates in
History
The Baker Branch drains a portion of the
Baker Lake
Baker Lake | |
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Location | Somerset County, Maine |
Coordinates | 46°16′N 69°55′W / 46.267°N 69.917°W[5] |
Basin countries | United States |
Max. length | 3 mi (4.8 km)[6] |
Max. width | 1,300 yd (1.2 km)[6] |
Surface area | 1,255 acres (508 ha)[7] |
Max. depth | 33 feet (10 m)[8] |
Water volume | 13,929 acre⋅ft (17,181,000 m3)[7] |
Surface elevation | 1,181 ft (360 m)[5] |
Baker Lake is the largest lake on the Baker Branch. The lake was originally populated with brook trout, yellow perch, fallfish, and white sucker. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife stocked the lake with land-locked Atlantic salmon in 1967, and then with rainbow smelt in 1970 as a food source for the salmon. Canadians introduced muskellunge into Lac Frontière in Quebec; and by 1986, muskellunge had entered Baker Lake by swimming down the Northwest Branch and up the Baker Branch.[8]
Lower course of the river
The mouth of the Baker Lake has a bridge on the road linking the summit of Mount Brailey (altitude: 451 metres (1,480 ft)) located on the west side and the summit of Mount Baker (elevation: 480 metres (1,570 ft) located on the east side. The "Baker Lake North Campsite" is located on the west side of the mouth.
From the mouth of Lac Baker, the "Baker Branch Saint John River" flows over 28.2 kilometres (17.5 mi) according to the following segments:
- 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) Northward through several rapids up to the confluence of the Turner creek (from the Southeast);
- 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) Northward forming a curve toward West, crossing the Township 8, Range 17 WELS, up to the confluence of the Brailey creek (from the West);
- 3.9 kilometres (2.4 mi) to the Northeast, up to the confluence of a stream (from the East);
- 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) Northward, up to an island;
- 2.9 kilometres (1.8 mi) to the Northwest bypassing an island (length: 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi); maximum width: 0.7 kilometres (0.43 mi));
- 9.9 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the Northwest then the Northeast, crossing several rapids up to the confluence of the river in the T9 R17 WELS[9]
The confluence of the "Baker Branch Saint John River" is in the Somerset County, Maine in Maine to:
- 9.9 kilometres (6.2 mi) East of the Canada-US border;
- 9.1 kilometres (5.7 mi) South of the confluence of the Southwest Branch Saint John River.
See also
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 22, 2011
- ^ "Fifth St. John Pond" (PDF). Maine Lake Survey Maps. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
- ^ "The Northern: The Way I Remember" (PDF). John E. Mcleod. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
- Down Eastmagazine
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Baker Lake
- ^ ISBN 0-89933-035-5.
- ^ a b Maine Depts. of Environmental Protection and Inland Fisheries & Wildlife (2005-08-04). "Maine Lakes: Morphometry and Geographic Information". Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, The University of Maine. Archived from the original on 2006-09-03. Retrieved 31 July 2008.
- ^ a b "Baker Lake" (PDF). Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. State of Maine. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ^ Segments of the river measured from the Atlas of Canada (posted on Internet), Ministry of Natural Resources Canada