Spies Run

Spies Run begins on a mountain in East Union Township, a few hundred feet from the border between East Union Township and Kline Township. It flows northwest in a narrow valley for several tenths of a mile. The stream then receives an unnamed tributary and turns north-northwest, entering a much broader valley. After a few tenths of a mile, it turns northwest and crosses a road. Within several hundred feet, the stream reaches its confluence with Catawissa Creek.

Spies Run arrives at its confluence with Catawissa Creek {{convert|36.86|mi|km}} upstream of the mouth of the creek.{{Citation|url = http://www.yorkccd.org/E&S/trout_repro.pdf|title = Naturally Reproducing Trout Stream Limits – May 15, 2009|page = 82|date = May 15, 2009|access-date = October 10, 2014}}

Spies Run is described as a "clean stream" in the January 2013 Progress Report for the Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation. An extremely low pH was once observed in the stream using two water chemistry units. However, laboratory analysis of water samples for the stream determined that its pH was significantly closer to neutral. The pH measurements observed in the field are considered to erroneous, while the pH measurements observed in the laboratory are considered to be correct.{{Citation|author = Michael A. Hewitt|publisher = Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation|url = http://epcamr.org/storage/staff/January13MikePR.pdf|title = Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation|page = 2|date = January 2013|access-date = October 10, 2014}}

The elevation near the mouth of Spies Run is {{convert|1184|ft|m}} above sea level.{{Citation|url = http://www.topozone.com/states/Pennsylvania.asp?county=Schuylkill&feature=Stream&f=50|title = Topographic Map Stream Features in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania|access-date = October 10, 2014}} The elevation of the stream's source is between {{convert|1660|ft|m}} and {{convert|1680|ft|m}}.

Spies Run is in the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Conyngham. The community of McAdoo is near the stream.

There is a mountain in the watershed of Spies Run. A spoon-like geographical feature a mile from Buck Mountain is present at the headwaters of the stream. This geographical feature contains a rock formation known as Formation No. XII.{{Citation|author = Geological Survey of Pennsylvania|url = https://archive.org/stream/geologicalsurve03goog/geologicalsurve03goog_djvu.txt|title = Full text of "Geological Survey of Pennsylvania"|access-date = October 10, 2014}}

Spies Run was listed in the Geographic Names Information System on January 1, 1990. Additionally, the stream is in the Atlas of the Anthracite Coalfields of Pennsylvania.{{Citation|author = Geographic Names Information System|url =http://gnis.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:3:0::NO::P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1202225,Spies%20Run|title =Feature Detail Report for: Spies Run|access-date = October 10, 2014}} The stream was considered by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission for addition to their list of Pennsylvania's wild trout streams in April 2009.{{Citation|publisher = Pennsylvania Bulletin|url = http://www.pabulletin.com/secure/data/vol39/39-11/39-11.pdf|title = Entire Bulletin - Pennsylvania Bulletin|page = 83|access-date = October 10, 2014}}

Wild trout reproduce naturally in Spies Run between its headwaters and its mouth.{{Citation|author = Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission|url = http://fishandboat.com/trout_repro.pdf|title = Pennsylvania Wild Trout Waters (Natural Reproduction) - May 2014|page = 81|date = May 2014|access-date = October 10, 2014}} They have done so as early as 2009.

• Messers Run, next tributary of Catawissa Creek going downstream
• Cross Run, next tributary of Catawissa Creek going upstream
• List of tributaries of Catawissa Creek

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• [http://ccra.epcamr.org/storage/CattyCreek.pdf Map of the Catawissa Creek watershed]

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Category:Rivers of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Category:Tributaries of Catawissa Creek

Category:Rivers of Pennsylvania