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The Spicket River is a 17.7 mile long (28.5 km)[1] river located in New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the United States.
 
It is a tributary of the Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an earlier spelling that is sometimes still used), part of the Gulf of Maine and Merrimack River watershed.


The Spicket River begins at the outlet of Island Pond in Derry, New Hampshire, and flows south into Salem, New Hampshire, passing through the Arlington Mill Reservoir.

Island Pond is a 532-acre[1] water body located in Rockingham County in southern New Hampshire, United States, in the towns of Derry, Hampstead and Atkinson.
 
Arlington Mill Reservoir is a 320-acre impoundment located in Rockingham County in southern New Hampshire.

The river continues through Salem, encountering copious suburban development, and enters the city of Methuen, Massachusetts, where it drops nearly 100 feet over a series of dams on its way to the Merrimack River in Lawrence.