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also transiting the town of
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Inspection today via maps.google.com shows the headwaters begin to flow east from ~.5 miles (0.8 km) (~2600 ft, estimated) south of
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443:Tom Thwaites (1997) "
243:Nesquehoning Mountain
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186:Lansford
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