Baker Run

Baker Run begins on Stone Mountain in Noxen Township. It flows south-southeast down the mountain for a few tenths of a mile before turning south and continuing to flow down the mountain. After a short distance, it enters a deep valley and receives Windfall Run, its only named tributary, from the right. The stream then turns southeast for a short distance before turning south for a short distance. It then heads in an east-northeasterly direction (although it makes several turns) for a few tenths of a mile before reaching its confluence with Bowman Creek.

Baker Run joins Bowman Creek {{convert|17.58|mi|km}} upstream of its mouth.{{Citation|url = http://www.lycoming.edu/cwi/pdfs/paGazetterOfStreams.pdf|title = Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams|pages = 29, 152|date = November 2, 2001|access-date = October 12, 2015}}

Baker Run has one named tributary, which is a {{convert|1.7|mi|km|adj=on}} long stream known as Windfall Run. Windfall Run joins Baker Run {{convert|0.66|mi|km}} upstream of its mouth and drains an area of {{convert|1.68|sqmi|km2}}.

Baker Run is not designated as an impaired waterbody.{{Citation|author=United States Environmental Protection Agency |url=http://oaspub.epa.gov/tmdl/attains_watershed.control?p_huc=02050106&p_state=PA&p_cycle=2006&p_report_type=A |title=Assessment Summary for Reporting Year 2006 Pennsylvania, Upper Susquehanna-Tunkhannock Watershed |access-date=October 12, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20151121020905/http://oaspub.epa.gov/tmdl/attains_watershed.control?p_huc=02050106&p_state=PA&p_cycle=2006&p_report_type=A |archive-date=November 21, 2015 }}

The elevation near the mouth of Baker Run is {{convert|1227|ft|m}} above sea level.{{Citation|author = Geographic Names Information System|url = http://gnis.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:3:0::NO::P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1198348,Baker%20Run|title = Feature Detail Report for: Baker Run|access-date = October 12, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The elevation near the source of Baker Run is between {{convert|1580|and|1600|ft|m|0}} above sea level.

The surficial geology in the vicinity of the lower reaches of Baker Run consists of alluvium, which contains stratified sand, silt, and gravel, and alluvial terrace. Further upstream, in the middle and upper reaches, there is a till known as Wisconsinan Till, which is underlain by glacial lake clays in the vicinity of the stream's middle reaches.{{Citation|author = Duane D. Braun|url = http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/cs/groups/public/documents/document/dcnr_015820.zip|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140524155253/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/cs/groups/public/documents/document/dcnr_015820.zip|url-status = dead|archive-date = May 24, 2014|title = Surficial geology of the Noxen 7.5-minute quadrangle, Wyoming and Luzerne Counties, Pennsylvania|page = 18|year = 2007|access-date = October 12, 2015}}

The watershed of Baker Run has an area of {{convert|2.28|sqmi|km2}}. The mouth of the stream is in the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Nxoen. However, its source is in the quadrangle of Dutch Mountain.

Baker Run was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on August 2, 1979. Its identifier in the Geographic Names Information System is 1198348. The stream is also known as Windfall Run. This variant name appears in a 1946 United States Geological Survey map.{{Citation|author = Geographic Names Information System|url = http://gnis.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:4:0::NO:4:P4_FID,FNAME:1198348,Windfall%20Run|title = Variant Citation|access-date = October 12, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

The drainage basin of Baker Run is designated as a High-Quality Coldwater Fishery and a Migratory Fishery.{{Citation|work = Pennsylvania Code|url = http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/025/chapter93/s93.9i.html|title = § 93.9i. Drainage List I. Susquehanna River Basin in Pennsylvania Susquehanna River|access-date = October 12, 2015}} Wild trout naturally reproduce in the stream from its headwaters downstream to its mouth.{{Citation|author = Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission|url = http://fishandboat.com/trout_repro.pdf|title = Pennsylvania Wild Trout Waters (Natural Reproduction) – August 2015|page = 105|date = August 2015|access-date = October 12, 2015|archive-date = July 1, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150701171657/http://www.fishandboat.com/trout_repro.pdf|url-status = dead}}

• Sorber Run, next tributary of Bowman Creek going downstream
• Broad Hollow Run, next tributary of Bowman Creek going upstream
• List of rivers of Pennsylvania
• List of tributaries of Bowman Creek

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