Beaver Run (South Branch French Creek tributary)
natural watercourse in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Beaver Run is a 9.33 mi (15.02 km) long tributary to South Branch French Creek in Erie County, Pennsylvania and is classed as a 2nd order stream on the EPA waters geoviewer site.
Course
Beaver Run rises in Amity Township of Erie County, Pennsylvania northwest of Beaver Dam and then flows southwest through Wayne Township to meet South Branch French Creek south of Elgin, Pennsylvania.
Watershed
Beaver Run drains 6.87 square miles (17.8 km2) of Erie Drift Plain (glacial geology). The watershed receives an average of 46.7 in/year of precipitation and has a wetness index of 481.88.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Beaver Run (South Branch French Creek tributary)” is natural watercourse in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Beaver, South and Branch, not as a finished interpretation.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q49852411. Authority coordinates are 41.891, -79.739. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Beaver Run (South Branch French Creek tributary)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.