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Housing Units (2000): 280
Land area (2000): 1.594882 sq. miles (4.130724 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.594882 sq. miles (4.130724 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08472
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.052639 N, 76.278369 W
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Briar Creek
Wikipedia
Briar Creek or Brier Creek may refer to:
Briar Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is in length. The stream has a watershed area of 33.0 square miles. It flows through Briar Creek Township and the borough of Briar Creek. The area near the creek was originally inhabited by the Lenni Lenape and the Shawanese. European settlers arrived in the 1770s.
Briar Creek has two named tributaries: West Branch Briar Creek and East Branch Briar Creek. The discharge of Briar Creek ranges from 0.06 to 50 cubic feet per second. The water temperature of the creek ranges from to . The rock in the watershed mostly consists of sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, limestone, and shale.
There are Pennsylvania State Game Lands in the watershed, as well as a lake known as the Briar Creek Reservoir. In the lake, the most common species of fish is yellow perch.
Usage examples of "briar creek".
A month later, Colonel Andrew Pickens of South Carolina defeated a band of Tories at Kettle Creek, Georgia, northwest of Augusta, but was then outflanked and defeated at Briar Creek on March 3.
Attention shifted to naval engagements between the French and British in the West Indies and to British forays into the South, where, in the spring of 1779, the Americans were defeated at Briar Creek, Georgia.