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Stony Creek (Susquehanna River tributary)

Coordinates: 40°21′50″N 76°55′49″W / 40.3638°N 76.9304°W / 40.3638; -76.9304
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Stony Creek (also known as Stoney Creek or Rausch Creek[1]) is a 23.0-mile-long (37.0 km)[2] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.[3]

Stony Creek joins the Susquehanna River at the borough of Dauphin.

Stony Creek is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River from its headwaters to the gate of Pennsylvania State Game Lands 211. Included in this designation are three smaller tributary streams: Rattling Run, Rausch Creek and Yellow Springs.[4]

Stony Creek was so named from its stony river bed.[5]

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References

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  1. ^ USGS Geographic Names Information System, accessed December 5, 2014
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed August 8, 2011
  3. ^ Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
  4. ^ Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers website, accessed December 5, 2014
  5. ^ Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania. Harrisburg Publishing Company. 1895. p. 22.
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40°21′50″N 76°55′49″W / 40.3638°N 76.9304°W / 40.3638; -76.9304