Hopkins Pond (New Hampshire)
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| Location | Merrimack County, New Hampshire |
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| Primary outflows | tributary of the Blackwater River via Mountain Brook |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Max. length | 0.3 miles (0.5 km) |
| Max. width | 0.25 miles (0.4 km) |
| Surface area | 27 acres (11 ha) |
| Average depth | 20 feet (6 m) |
| Max. depth | 50 feet (15 m) |
| Surface elevation | 644 feet (196 m) |
| Settlements | Andover, New Hampshire |
Hopkins Pond (also known as Adder Pond) is located on the south slope of Ragged Mountain, less than two miles (3 km) northeast of downtown Andover, New Hampshire at 644 feet (196 m) in elevation[1]. The pond is part of Proctor Academy's 2,500-acre (10 km²) campus in Andover and is jointly managed by Proctor and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. The pond area is open to the public for non-motorized boat travel, fishing and hiking.
This shallow pond has an average depth of 20 feet (6.1 m), is 50 feet (15 m) deep at the deepest point, and covers a total area of 27 acres.[2] The pond empties eastward into Mountain Brook below Elbow Pond. Mountain Brook, in turn, is a tributary of the Blackwater River, which flows via the Contoocook River and Merrimack River to the Gulf of Maine (Atlantic Ocean) at Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Hopkins Pond sits within the Merrimack River watershed, and is floristically considered part of the Sunapee Uplands sub-region of the Lower New England-Northern Piedmont Ecoregion as defined by The Nature Conservancy and the New England-Acadian Forest Ecoregion as defined by the World Wildlife Fund.[3] [4]
The north shore of Hopkins Pond can be accessed from the west by Middle Hopkins Pond Trail. The south shore can be accessed from Lower Hopkins Pond Trail. Both shores can be accessed from the east by an NH Fish and Game access road off of Elbow Pond Road.
[edit] References
- ^ Andover, USGS Andover (NH) Topo Map. Topozone Website. Retrieved 12 December 2007
- ^ NH Fish & Wildlife. Hopkins (Adder) Pond PDF. Retrieved 12 December 2007
- ^ The Nature Concervancy's GIS Website. Map Gallery. Nature Concervancy Ecoregion Map Gallery Retrieved 23 December 2007.
- ^ World Wildlife Fund. New England-Acadian forests (NA0410). WWF's New England-Acadian forest description Retrieved on 23 December 2007
