Spring Creek (Susquehanna River tributary)
Spring Creek[1] is a 6.0-mile-long (9.7 km)[2] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
| Spring Creek | |
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.jpg) Spring Creek in Swatara Township | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania |
| • elevation | 295 feet (90 m) |
| Mouth | |
• location | Susquehanna River at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
| Length | 6.0 miles (9.7 km) |
| Basin size | 11.6 square miles (30 km2) |
Spring Creek rises in Lower Paxton Township, flowing through adjacent areas such as Paxtang, Oakleigh, Progress, Lawnton, and Colonial Park. The stream flows in a westerly direction, eventually joining the Susquehanna River in southern Harrisburg. The tributary Slotznick Run enters Spring Creek at Progress.[3]
Spring Creek parallels the 2-mile stretch of the Cameron Parkway section of the Capital Area Greenbelt in South Harrisburg and the Paxtang Parkway in Paxtang.[4] Spring Creek joins the Susquehanna at Harrisburg, just near the confluence of the Paxton Creek. The historical Rutherford Springhouse was built over a Paxtang portion of the creek in the 1740s to store perishable foods.[5] Paxtang Park is located along the creek's banks.
Tributaries
edit- Parkway Creek (also called Paxtang Tributary)[6][7][8]
- Slotznick Run
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "GNIS Detail - Spring Creek". Geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed August 8, 2011
- ^ "GINS Detail - Slotznick Run". Geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
- ^ Lacasse, Norman (1902-02-18). "Capitol Area Greenbelt - History". Caga.org. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
- ^ richardgwynallen2013 (2016-05-16). "A Mordah-Rutherford Homestead in Lancaster County". The Kitchen Table. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "FIS Cover MV-CW_Dauphin_vOLUME3.doc" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-11-08.
- ^ Shepler, Scott; Moses, Todd (December 2015). "Environmental Restoration in the Paxtang Parkway: A Preliminary Action Plan" (PDF). Capital Area Greenbelt Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2016.
- ^ Urie, Daniel (3 October 2022). "Harrisburg receives more than $2M in grants for Greenbelt restoration, development of Chutes and Ladders Playground, more". The Patriot-News (Penn Live). Archived from the original on 27 November 2022.
External links
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