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Spring Creek (Susquehanna River tributary)

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River in Pennsylvania, United States
Spring Creek
Spring Creek in Swatara Township
Location
CountryDauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationLower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania
 • elevation295 feet (90 m)
Mouth 
 • locationSusquehanna River at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Length6.0 miles (9.7 km)
Basin size11.6 square miles (30 km)

Spring Creek is a 6.0-mile-long (9.7 km) tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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.

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. 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. Paxtang Park is located along the creek's banks.

Tributaries

See also

References

  1. "GNIS Detail - Spring Creek". Geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed August 8, 2011
  3. "GINS Detail - Slotznick Run". Geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
  4. Lacasse, Norman (1902-02-18). "Capitol Area Greenbelt - History". Caga.org. Retrieved 2012-11-08.
  5. 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)
  6. "FIS Cover MV-CW_Dauphin_vOLUME3.doc" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-11-08.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.

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