Ballanger Creek is a 4.7 miles (7.6 km) tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

 of the Mullica River

Mullica River

The Mullica River is a river in southern New Jersey in the United States. The Mullica was once known as the Little Egg Harbor River.The river provides one of the principal drainages into the Atlantic Ocean of the extensive Pinelands...

 in southern New Jersey

New Jersey

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 in the United States

United States

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. The name is derived from "Belangee," a family of French Huguenot

Huguenot

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s who were early settlers in the area.

It arises in Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey

Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey

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, to the west of Tuckerton

Tuckerton, New Jersey

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, and flows south. Crossing under U.S. Route 9

U.S. Route 9

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, it forms the boundary between Ocean County

Ocean County, New Jersey

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 and Burlington County

Burlington County, New Jersey

There were 154,371 households out of which 34.30% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.70% were married couples living together, 10.90% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.70% were non-families. 22.90% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.50% had...

 for the remainder of its course. Passing through abandoned cranberry bogs on the eastern side of a parcel of Bass River State Forest

Bass River State Forest

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, it enters the tidal marshes of the Mullica, where it is fed by Lower Pasture Creek and World's End Creek. The channel of Mathis Thorofare connects it to Broad Creek to the west. Just below, it meets Fish Creek, and then the larger Winter Creek just before emptying into the Mullica.

Biodiversity

The rare Marsh Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium aquaticum var. aquaticum) and Pine Barren Boneset (Eupatorium resinosum) grow in the abandoned bogs along its course.

Tributaries

• Winter Creek
• Fish Creek
  Fish Creek
  -Streams:* Fish Creek ** Battle of Fish Creek, took place at the above creek* Fish Creek , in Fish Creek Provincial Park-Communities:* Fish Creek No. 402, Saskatchewan, rural municipality* Fish Creek, Victoria, Australian township...
  
  
• Mathis Thorofare
• World's End Creek
• Lower Pasture Creek