List of tributaries of Larrys Creek

A map with caption "Larrys Creek Watershed Map Lycoming County, Pennsylvania". The top left corner is labeled "Pine Township" and shows the village "English Center". The top right corner is labeled "Cogan House Township", has four villages ("Steam Valley", "Cogan House", "Brookside", and "White Pine") and labeled streams "Larrys Creek", "Wolf Run", "Wendell Run", "Roaring Run", and Second Fork". At left center is "Cummins Township" with streams "Lawshe Run", "Funston Run", "Dog Run", and "Tarkiln Run". In the center is "Mifflin Township" which surrounds the borough of "Salladasburg"; named streams are "Little Harbor Run", "Joes Run", "Marsh Run", "First Fork", "Mud Run", and "Canoe Run". "Anthony Township" is at center right, and in the lower left corner are "Watson", "Porter", and "Pine Creek" townships and the borough of "Jersey Shore". In middle center is "Piatt Township" with the villages of "Larryville" and "Larrys Creek" and the stream "Seeley Run", below this is "Nippenose Township". In the lower right corner is "Woodward Township" and the label for the "West Branch Susquehanna River".
Map of the Larrys Creek watershed, showing inhabited places and major tributaries

There are 42 named tributaries of Larrys Creek, which is a 22.9 mile (36.9 km) long stream in Lycoming County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Larrys Creek is a tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River and part of the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin; its watershed drains 89.1 square miles (231 km2) in six townships and a borough.[1] Despite being clear-cut in the 19th century,[2] as of 2008 the Larrys Creek watershed is 83.1% forest and 15.7% agricultural.[3]

The named tributaries within the watershed are presented here in three lists. Larrys Creek itself has 18 named tributaries, which are the subject of the first list. The First Fork and Second Fork of Larrys Creek are the two main tributaries of Larrys Creek, and they have multiple tributaries of their own. The second list gives the First Fork's eight named tributaries, and the third list gives the Second Fork's nine named tributaries. Finally there are seven named streams in the watershed which are tributaries of tributaries of the three main branches, and they are presented after each list. There is one such stream for Larrys Creek itself, two for the First Fork, and four for the Second Fork.[4] There are also tributaries without names, which are not included in these lists.

Each list follows the same format. The first column gives the name—27 of the tributaries are named streams, while the remaining 15 are unnamed streams in named valleys: i.e. 13 hollows, one cove, and one swale. Tributaries which are themselves unnamed, but which are in a named valley are given the name of the feature in quotation marks, for example: "Pond Hollow".[5] The first column also notes whether the tributary enters its parent stream on the right bank or left bank.[4] The second column in each list gives the river miles, which is the distance from the mouth of the tributary to the mouth of its parent stream (Larrys Creek or the First or Second Fork). The third column gives the area of the drainage basin or watershed for that stream.[5] The next four columns give the latitude and longitude and the elevation of the mouth and source of each tributary, and the final column has remarks, mostly about location.

  1. ^ Shaw, Lewis C. (June 1984). Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams Part II (Water Resources Bulletin No. 16). Prepared in Cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey (1st ed.). Harrisburg, PA: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Resources. OCLC 17150333.
  2. ^ Meginness, John Franklin (1892). "Chapter XLVII. Jackson and Cogan House.". History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania: including its aboriginal history; the colonial and revolutionary periods; early settlement and subsequent growth; organization and civil administration; the legal and medical professions; internal improvement; past and present history of Williamsport; manufacturing and lumber interests; religious, educational, and social development; geology and agriculture; military record; sketches of boroughs, townships, and villages; portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, etc. etc (1st ed.). Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co. ISBN 0-7884-0428-8. Retrieved 2006-03-16. Note: ISBN refers to the Heritage Books July 1996 reprint. URL is to a scan of the 1892 version with some OCR typos.
  3. ^ "Chesapeake Bay Program: Watershed Profiles: The Larrys Creek - At Larrys Creek Watershed". Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 10 Severn Avenue, Suite 109, Annapolis, MD 21403. Archived from the original on 2007-10-21. Retrieved 2008-03-17.
  4. ^ a b The names of the tributaries, whether they enter their parent on the right or left bank, the elevations of their sources, the lengths of the First and Second Forks, and the names of mountains are all taken from the United States Geological Survey 1:24,000 scale topographic maps covering the Larrys Creek watershed, specifically the following five quadrants (all in Pennsylvania): English Center, Linden, Salladasburg, Waterville, White Pine.
  5. ^ a b Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (2001). Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams (PDF). Retrieved 2012-06-01.