Lemon Stream (Sandy River tributary)
Lemon Stream is a roughly 15 miles (24 kilometers) long tributary of the Sandy River in Maine. It starts from a spring at about 1,460 feet (450 meters) above sea level, between Little Mountain and Caswell Mountain in the New Vineyard mountains of Franklin County. Through the Sandy River, Lemon Stream is part of the Kennebec River watershed.
The stream flows southeast across the northeast corner of Industry, then crosses into Somerset County at the southwest corner of Anson, and finally meets the Sandy River at the southern edge of Starks.
From its upper wetlands, Lemon Stream drops over several falls into the upper Lemon Stream valley, then travels south through sugar maple woods into the lower valley. It widens and slows behind a small hydroelectric dam in Starks. Below the dam it continues through woods and farmland until its waters join the Sandy River, which flows eastward.
There is another Lemon Stream in Maine (a north-flowing brook in New Portland); this article describes the one that feeds into the Sandy River.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 05:19 (CET).