Surveyor Run

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Surveyor Run is a stream in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] It is a tributary to the West Branch Susquehanna River.

Surveyor Run was named from a pioneer incident when a surveyor and his party became lost near the stream's course. [2] The name sometimes is written "Surveyors Run". [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Surveyor Run
  2. Espenshade, Abraham Howry (1925). Pennsylvania Place Names. Evangelical Press. p. 302. ISBN   978-0-8063-0416-8.