Lick Run (Peters Creek tributary)

Lick Run is a 6.7-mile-long (10.8 km)[1] urban stream in southern Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a tributary of Peters Creek.[2] The former Lick Run coal mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company had its mouth near the stream, along the B&O Railroad line.[3]

Lick Run
A stone arch bridge over Lick Run.
Location
CountryU.S.A. (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania)
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationSouth Park Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Mouth 
  location
Peters Creek
  elevation
797 ft (243 m)

Several stone arch bridges cross the stream. One carries Brownsville Road over the stream near Broughton. A National Landmark stone arch bridge carries Cochran Mill Road over the stream further downstream.

See also

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed August 15, 2011
  2. "Peters Creek Watershed Association".
  3. "Baltimore and Ohio's Cutt Off" (PDF). New York Times. 3 July 1883. Retrieved 19 December 2010. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1883/07/03/103438623.pdf

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