The name Tohickon comes from the Lene Lenape Indians who named it to mean “Deer-Bone-Creek.” Tohickon Creek runs from the Nockamixon Dam to confluence with the Delaware River (8 miles). In the 1780’s the Doan gang (the famous Bucks County robbers and felons of the time) hid in a small log house along the Tohickon Creek on the Plumstead side. The creek is in Delaware River Basin Subbasin Number 2 - Watershed D. Subbasin number 2 has a total drainage area of 1942 square miles. Known as the Central Delaware Subbasin, it includes the drainage area of the Lehigh River and several streams south of the Lehigh. The subbasin encompasses most of Bucks, Lehigh, and Carbon Counties, and portions of Northampton, Monroe, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, Schuylkill, Berks, and Montgomery Counties. Watershed D has a total drainage area of 211 square miles. Known as the Cooks – Tohickon Creeks Watershed, its major streams include Cooks Creek, Tohickon Creek and Three Mile Run.

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