It is also known for its abundance of lakes, most of which are fed by natural springs on their lake bottoms. As a result of this latter fact, combined with its generally high elevation, two significant Pennsylvania rivers, the Lackawanna and the Lackawaxen, begin in Preston Township. Specifically, Bone Pond (or Summit Lake) and Lake Lorain (or Five Mile Pond) in the village of Poyntelle and Independent Lake (formerly known as Independence Pond or Independent Pond, and sometimes known today as Lake Independence or Lake Independent) in Poyntelle and Orson are three of the four sources of the East Branch of the Lackawanna (the fourth being Dunn Pond, or Dunns Lake, in the village of East Ararat in Ararat Township in Susquehanna County), while the West Branch of the Lackawaxen rises from a confluence of several small, unnamed streams in Orson and Poyntelle.