Oyster Creek is a 10.4-mile-long (16.7 km) tributary of Barnegat Bay in southeastern New Jersey in the United States.
The creek is located approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of Forked River in southern Ocean County.
The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station is located on an 800-acre (3.2 km2) site at Forked River.
Famous quotes containing the words oyster and/or creek:
“I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)