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{{short description|River in the United States of America}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
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| image = Salem River New Jersey.jpg
| image_caption = The Salem River in [[Salem, New Jersey|Salem]] in 2006
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| source1_location = [[Upper Pittsgrove Township, New Jersey|Upper Pittsgrove Township]]
| source1_coordinates= {{coord|39|35|59|N|75|13|45|W|display=inline}}<ref name=GNIS>{{cite web |url={{Gnis3|880237}} |title=Geographic Names Information System entry for Salem River |access-date=2007-01-14}}</ref>
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The '''Salem River''' is a {{convert|34.7|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}<ref name=NHD/> [[tributary]] of the [[Delaware River]] in southwestern [[New Jersey]] in the [[United States]].

The course and watershed of the Salem River are entirely within [[Salem County, New Jersey|Salem County]]. [[tributary|Tributaries]] of the Salem include [[Game Creek (New Jersey)|Game Creek]], [[Mannington Creek]], and [[Fenwick Creek]].<ref name=DeLorme/> The river rises in [[Upper Pittsgrove Township, New Jersey|Upper Pittsgrove Township]] and flows initially westwardly, through [[Pilesgrove Township, New Jersey|Pilesgrove Township]] and the borough of [[Woodstown, New Jersey|Woodstown]] and along the boundaries of [[Carneys Point Township, New Jersey|Carneys Point]] and [[Mannington Township, New Jersey|Mannington]] Townships. Near [[Deepwater, New Jersey|Deepwater]] it approaches to within {{convert|2|mi|0}} of the Delaware River, a distance breached by the Salem (Deepwater) Canal, which connects the two rivers. From there the Salem River turns to the south, flowing along the boundary of Mannington and [[Pennsville Township, New Jersey|Pennsville]] Townships,<ref name=DeLorme>[[DeLorme]] (2005). ''New Jersey Atlas & Gazetteer''. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. {{ISBN|0-89933-324-9}}.</ref> where it widens into a [[meander]]ing shallow [[estuary]], Kates Creek Meadow, and passes the city of [[Salem, New Jersey|Salem]], its head of [[navigability]].<ref name=Columbia>{{cite web | url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/65/S02065.html | title=Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry for Salem River | access-date=2007-01-14 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050312054738/http://www.bartleby.com/69/65/S02065.html | archive-date=2005-03-12 }}</ref> It flows into the Delaware River from the east near the head of [[Delaware Bay]], on the boundary of Pennsville and [[Elsinboro Township, New Jersey|Elsinboro]] townships, approximately {{convert|2|mi|0}} west of Salem and approximately {{convert|5|mi|0}} southeast of [[Finns Point]].

The Delaware and the Salem are [[tide|tidal]]. The Delaware River Main Channel is maintained at a depth of {{convert|40|ft|m}} and expected to be {{convert|45|ft|m}} in 2017<ref>{{cite web | title = Delaware River Main Channel Deepening | publisher = United States Army Corps of Engineers | url = https://www.nap.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Delaware-River-Main-Channel-Deepening/ | access-date = 2013-07-25}}</ref> Reach D, which includes the entrance to [[Port of Salem]], was completed in 2010.<ref>{{cite web | title = Contract 1 Reach D | publisher = US Army Corps of Engineers | url = https://www.nap.usace.army.mil/Portals/39/docs/Civil/Deepening/Contract1.pdf | access-date = 2013-07-31}}</ref> The [[shipping channel]] of the Salem River is much shallower, making the city a [[Draft (hull)|low draft]] port, which prohibits use by [[Handymax]] class ships. The river is entered though Salem Cove about {{convert|50|mi}} from the entrance of the [[Delaware Bay]]. The channel travels along the southeast side of the cove for {{convert|2|mi}} and continues another {{convert|3|mi}} upstream of the first vehicular bridge crossing it.<ref>{{cite book | last = Griffes | first = Peter L. Griffes | title = (148) Salem River | work = Atlantic Boating Almanac 2004 | publisher = ProStar Publications | year = 2004 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_YdXeXuVMRgC&pg=PA208 | isbn = 9781577855033 }}</ref>
The Salem River and Cut-Off was first [[River engineering|channel]]ized in 1925 to a depth of {{convert|16|ft|m}}.<ref name = USACEsalem>{{cite web | title = Salem River | publisher = US Army Corps of Engineers | date = April 2013 | url = https://www.nap.usace.army.mil/Missions/Factsheets/Fact-Sheet-Article-View/Article/490824/salem-river/ | access-date = 2013-07-31}}</ref>

According to the [[Geographic Names Information System]], the river has also been known historically as ''Firkins Creek'', ''Varkens Kill'', and ''Varkins Kill'' (Hogg Creek). The [[United States Board on Geographic Names|Board on Geographic Names]] settled on "Salem River" as the stream's name in 1940.<ref name=GNIS/> The [[estuary]] was inhabited by [[Lenape]] at the time of [[European colonization of the Americas|European colonization]]. In 1641, emigrants from the [[New Haven Colony]] settled along the Varkens Kill. [[Fort Nya Elfsborg|Fort Elfsborg]], a settlement of the [[New Sweden]] colony was constructed along the eastern bank of the Delaware near the mouth of the Salem in 1642–1643. The fort was later abandoned because of the prevalence of [[mosquito]]es and the construction of [[Fort Casimir]] by the [[New Netherland|New Netherland Dutch]] across the river. In 1675, the village of Salem was founded near the mouth of the Salem river as part of the [[John Fenwick (Quaker)|Fenwick Colony]].<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.getnj.com/historicroadsides/salem.shtml | title = Historic Roadsides of New Jersey | access-date = 2007-01-14}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of New Jersey rivers]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nj/nwis/uv/?site_no=01482500&agency_cd=USGS Salem River gaging station at Woodsville]

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[[Category:Tributaries of the Delaware River]]
[[Category:Rivers of New Jersey]]
[[Category:Rivers of Salem County, New Jersey]]

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