Stony Creek (also known as Stoney Creek or Rausch Creek [1] [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: , and .[4]
Stony Creek was so named from its stony river bed.[5]
Tributaries [ ] See also [ ] References [ ]
^ USGS Geographic Names Information System , accessed December 5, 2014^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map , accessed August 8, 2011
^ Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing , Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
^ Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers website , accessed December 5, 2014^ Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania
External links [ ] Coordinates : 40°21′50″N 76°55′49″W / 40.3638°N 76.9304°W / 40.3638; -76.9304
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