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A lake known as Bryant Pond is situated near the mouth of Paint Spring Run on
Harveys Creek. Although the stream is a tributary of Harveys Creek, it is instead listed as a tributary of Bear Hollow Creek in the 1921 Water Resources Inventory Report.
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Paint Spring Run has no named tributaries. However, it does have one unnamed tributary. It is approximately 1.0 mile (1.6 km) long and joins Paint Spring Run in its lower reaches.
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or small lake. The stream then turns nearly due south for several tenths of a mile, passing through a small pond, before receiving an unnamed tributary from the
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Paint Spring Run begins southeast of Kocher
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Surficial geology of the
Harveys Lake 7.5-minute quadrangle, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
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on August 2, 1979. Its identifier in the
Geographic Names Information System is 1183200.
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Paint Spring Run joins
Harveys Creek 11.42 miles (18.38 km) upstream of its mouth.
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Harveys Creek in Lake Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
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514:Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams
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413:Pikes Creek
300:During the
270:Tributaries
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174:Progression
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655:Categories
426:References
253:Loyalville
161:Basin size
118:76°04′26″W
115:41°19′11″N
369:watershed
363:Watershed
345:sandstone
291:sea level
217:tributary
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407:See also
353:peat bog
341:boulders
325:alluvium
395:Biology
383:History
357:wetland
306:bedrock
302:glacial
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337:gravel
295:source
235:Course
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52:Source
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401:trout
399:Wild
349:shale
329:tills
310:ridge
308:of a
287:mouth
261:right
85:Mouth
16:River
642:2015
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367:The
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333:sand
257:pond
249:lake
223:in
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