[1] The community is located along the Susquehanna River and U.S. Route 11, 3.2 miles (5.1 km) west of Nanticoke.

Hunlock Creek has a post office with ZIP code 18621.

[2][3] In 1940, a regional guidebook noted that the town, "its shacks resting in a mountain cleft, is named for the coal-blackened stream that splits it into a number of sections.

US 11 parallels the winding river through a long valley that broadens out occasionally to include a cultivated tract on the river flat.

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