Brandywine Creek (Quittapahilla Creek tributary)

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Brandywine Creek (Quittapahilla Creek)
Location
Country United States of America
Physical characteristics
Source 
 - coordinates 40°22′10″N76°23′43″W / 40.36944°N 76.39528°W / 40.36944; -76.39528 [1]
Mouth  
 - location
 Quittapahilla Creek
 - coordinates
 40°20′17″N76°26′10″W / 40.33806°N 76.43611°W / 40.33806; -76.43611 Coordinates: 40°20′17″N76°26′10″W / 40.33806°N 76.43611°W / 40.33806; -76.43611 [1]
 - elevation
456 ft (139 m) [1]

Brandywine Creek [2] is a 3.0-mile-long (4.8 km) [3] tributary of Quittapahilla Creek in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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It rises in northeastern Lebanon County and flows southwest through Lebanon, through the limestone hill country south of the Appalachian Mountains. It joins Quittapahilla Creek west of the center of Lebanon.

Stovers Dam 40°21′13″N76°24′38″W / 40.35361°N 76.41056°W / 40.35361; -76.41056 [4] and Recreation Area is the principal landmark along Brandywine Creek.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Brandywine Creek (Quittapahilla Creek tributary)
  2. ↑ United States Geological Survey Hydrological Unit Code: 02-05-03-05- Lower Susquehanna–Swatara Watershed
  3. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-04-05 at WebCite , accessed August 8, 2011
  4. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stovers Dam
Pennsylvania State of the United States of America

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle. The Commonwealth is bordered by Delaware to the southeast, Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to the northwest, New York to the north, and New Jersey to the east.

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