Do you know your most important address?
 Your watershed address!

Most of us know our political address; the name of the city, borough, or township where we live. We know the name of our county. And, of course, we know our home state and country. Less well known to each of us is our natural address.

Do you know the name of your local stream?

Can you name your home watershed?

Do you know what larger watershed you live in and where your home stream reaches the sea?

Rain falling on Pennsylvania reaches the sea at three different locations several thousand miles apart. Potter County is the only county in Pennsylvania that has the distinction of having its waters drain to all three of these locations:

One location is in the north Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence River.

A second, more obvious place our waters reach the sea is the mid-atlantic off the eastern coast.
The third place our waters reach the sea is the Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans.

Potter County also has the only site east of the Mississippi where rainfall running off the John Torok
farm in heads in three directions to those three locations listed above.