Stony Creek (Susquehanna River tributary)

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Stony Creek (also known as Stoney Creek or Rausch Creek[http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1193478 USGS Geographic Names Information System], accessed December 5, 2014) is a {{convert|23.0|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map], accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. {{ISBN|0-9749692-0-6}}

Stony Creek joins the Susquehanna River at the borough of Dauphin.

Stony Creek is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River from its headwaters to the gate of Pennsylvania State Game Lands 211. Included in this designation are three smaller tributary streams: Rattling Run, Rausch Creek and Yellow Springs.[https://web.archive.org/web/20141209101445/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/brc/conservation/rivers/scenicrivers/stonycreek/index.htm Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers website], accessed December 5, 2014

Stony Creek was so named from its stony river bed.{{cite book|title=Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyxBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA22|year=1895|publisher=Harrisburg Publishing Company|page=22}}