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Harrisburg Run

stream in Pennsylvania and New York, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ116549127 ↗
Source-derived summary

Harrisburg Run is a 3.41 mi (5.49 km) long first-order tributary to Foster Brook. This is the only stream of this name in the United States.

Course

Harrisburg Run rises in Harrisburg, a small hamlet in the southwest corner of the town of Allegany in Cattaraugus County, New York, and then flows southwest in McKean County, Pennsylvania to meet Foster Brook about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of Derrick City, Pennsylvania.

Watershed

Harrisburg Run drains 4.02 square miles (10.4 km2) of area, receives about 45.2 in/year (115 cm/year) of precipitation, and is about 92.47% forested.

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The public source identifies “Harrisburg Run” as stream in Pennsylvania and New York, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Harrisburg, stream and Pennsylvania.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 95-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Harrisburg, stream and Pennsylvania providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q116549127. Authority coordinates are 41.973, -78.589. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Harrisburg Run” 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.