Streets Run
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| Streets Run Tributary to Monongahela River | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Allegheny |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | Monongahela River |
• location | Monongahela River near Sandcastle Water Park[2] |
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| Basin features | |
| Progression | generally northwest |
| River system | Monongahela River |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Glass Run |
| • right | unnamed tributaries |
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Streets Run is a 5.2-mile-long (8.4 km)[5] tributary of the Monongahela River in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. This urban stream drains portions of the communities of Pittsburgh, Baldwin, Brentwood, West Mifflin and Whitehall,[6] an area of about ten square miles.
Colonial history
Streets Run, previously referred to as Licking Creek, is depicted in A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and North Carolina, drawn by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson in 1751, and published by Thos. Jefferys, London, 1755. This landmark map, unusual in that it relied on firsthand surveys, is the first correct depiction of the Allegheny Mountains, complete with "The Great Road from the Yadkin River thro Virgionia to Philadelphia distant 455 Miles" - an accurate survey of what would come to be styled the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road.
Mining history
James Hardin Hays began mining coal along Streets Run in 1828. Other coal mines in the watershed were run by the I.D. Risher and Daniel W Risher Companies, as well as the Harrison Gas Coal Company.
Railroad history
The H.B. Hays and Brothers Coal Railroad ran along Streets Run to service the mine developed by J.H. Hays. It ended at Six Mile Ferry, on the Monongahela.[7] The Pittsburgh Southern Railroad and its successor, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,[8] also had lines running through the valley. The Whitehall Tunnel connects this valley with the Peters Creek watershed.
See also
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References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."GNIS Detail - Streets Run". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Whitehall Topo Map, Allegheny County PA (Glassport Area)". TopoZone. Locality, LLC. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ArcGIS Web Application". epa.maps.arcgis.com. US EPA. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Streets Run Watershed Report". Waters Geoviewer. US EPA. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed August 15, 2011
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Streets Run Watershed". Archived from the original on 2009-08-07. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
- ^ 1876 Map of the end of the H.B. Hays and Brothers Coal Railroad
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."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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