It is approximately 2.2 miles (3.5 km) long and flows through Lattimer, Harleigh, and Hazle Township.

Little Black Creek begins at the confluence of two unnamed tributaries on the border between Hazle Township and Lattimer.

After several tenths of a mile, the creek fully enters Hazle Township and crosses Pennsylvania Route 309.

[1] Both the source and the mouth of the creek are in the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Hazleton.

Little Black Creek is one of four surface streams that successfully exits the Jeddo Tunnel basin.

[5] Little Black Creek has been described by Bloomsburg University professor Duane Braun as having "sharp, multiple crest hydrography".

The Little Black Creek Coal Basin contributes 11.43 cubic feet per second of water to the Jeddo Tunnel's outflow.

[6] A concrete slab bridge carrying Pennsylvania Route 309 over Little Black Creek was built in 1928.

[3] Little Black Creek is mentioned in The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied.