Stevens Run (Rock Creek tributary)

{{Distinguish|Stevens Knoll}}

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Stevens Run{{Cite gnis|1188630|Stevens Run (1188630)|accessdate=}} (Stevens Creek,{{Cite book |last=Balch |first=William Ralston |last2=Butler |first2=John M. |year=1885 |title=The Battle of Gettysburg: An Historical Account |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OmZAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA36 |format=Google Books |location=Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |publisher=Lane S. Hart |access-date=2011-06-09}} Tiber) is a {{convert|2.2|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map]{{Verify source|webpage appearing via hyperlink does not identify length|date=December 2011}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |date=2012-03-29 }}, accessed August 15, 2011 tributary of Rock Creek in Pennsylvania in the United States.

Stevens Run flows over the Gettysburg Battlefield and through the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Within the borough the stream is in a concrete channel, including a covered portion. From 1884 to 1942, the run was spanned by three bridges of the Round Top Branch railroad.{{Cite map |publisher=Julius Bien & Co. Lith. |year=1904 |title=Map of the Battle Field of Gettysburg |url=http://www.simmonsgames.com/research/authors/PAGovtMisc/AtGettysburg/Map.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721171905/http://www.simmonsgames.com/research/authors/PAGovtMisc/AtGettysburg/Map.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |cartography=[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@OR(@field(AUTHOR+@3(Gettysburg+National+Military+Park+Commission++))+@field(OTHER+@3(Gettysburg+National+Military+Park+Commission++))) Gettysburg National Park Commission]: Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A |location=New York |access-date=2011-06-07}}

History

Stevens Run was named after Thaddeus Stevens, a congressman from Pennsylvania.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oxAmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qf0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3992%2C187381 | title=Stevens Run is historic | work=Gettysburg Times | date=Jan 5, 1999 | access-date=24 December 2015 | pages=3}}

Samuel Gettys' Tavern was located on the south side on the uphill slope of the now-named Stevens Run, and Rock Creek Church was approximately on the north bank of the now-named Carlisle Street and Stevens Run.{{Cite journal |title=[Alexander Dobbin article] |url=http://www.thegettysburgexperience.com/past_issue_headlines/2010/january2010/alexanderdobbin.html |journal=The Gettysburg Experience |access-date=2011-12-04 |quote=Rock Creek Church…located one mile north of the future town of Gettysburg (located near the junction of Carlisle Street and the Mummasburg Road) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128213951/http://thegettysburgexperience.com/past_issue_headlines/2010/january2010/alexanderdobbin.html |archive-date=2010-11-28 }} In 1902, a new bridge was built over the Tiber on Chambersburg Street.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7KglAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3vIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6593%2C705385]

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| colspan="6" bgcolor="silver" | Course, northeast-to-southwest

Intersection

! Location/Description

! Coordinates

Mouth

| Rock Creek confluence

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Bridge

| site of 1912 bridge [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Wr1cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tlgNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1280%2C40874]

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Bridge

| Former borough site of 1920 bridge [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XbslAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0PIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1370,2028806&dq=winebrenner-run+gettysburg&hl=en]

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Boundary

| Exits GNMP land

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Run

| Confluence with flow from Colt Park

| {{Coord|39|49.319|N|77|14.529|W|region:US-PA_type:landmark|name=Run into Colt Park}}

| Perennial flow{{Cite web |title=The National Map |url=http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/nhd.html?p=nhd&b=base2&x=-8598574.045709962&y=4839008.9376931265&l=16&v= |format=NHD Viewer |work=National Hydrography Dataset |publisher=NationalMap.gov (USGS) |access-date=2011-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323185550/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/nhd.html?p=nhd&b=base2&x=-8598574.045709962&y=4839008.9376931265&l=16&v= |archive-date=2012-03-23 |url-status=dead }}

|{{Coord|39.81631

77.25540|region:US-PA_type:landmark}}
| Flow from Plum & [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HpEjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eKMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1396,3411367&dq=groundbreaking+cyclorama+gettysburg&hl=en Guinn] runs' triple pt

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Headpoint

| N of Codori house & barn

| {{Coord|39.81178

77.24021|region:US-PA_type:landmark}}

See also

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