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Pennsylvania Route 292 was built over the creek in 1955 in Northmoreland Township and is 27.9 feet (8.5 m) long. A steel stringer/multi-beam or girder bridge carrying Pennsylvania Route 292 was constructed across the creek in 1955 in Northmoreland Township and is 38.1 feet
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A steel stringer/multi-beam or girder bridge carrying T-338/Jenks Road over Marsh Creek was built in 1920 and repaired in 1982. It is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northwest of Vernon and is 26.9 feet (8.2 m) long. A concrete
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Marsh Creek has one named tributary, which is known as Sugar Run. It joins Marsh Creek 2.24 miles (3.60 km) upstream of its mouth and its watershed has an area of 1.36 square miles (3.5 km).
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Marsh Creek is a very small stream; it has been described as "tiny". At the point where the creek meets Bowman Creek, there is a deep pool of water on the latter creek, known as Barn Pool.
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The drainage basin of Marsh Creek is designated as a High-Quality
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Wisconsinan Ice-Contact Stratified Drift. Further upstream, the surficial geology consists of Wisconsinan
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of Marsh Creek has an area of 10.2 square miles (26 km). The creek is entirely within the
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Marsh Creek joins Bowman Creek 5.60 miles (9.01 km) upstream of its mouth.
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33:Marsh Creek
770:Categories
451:References
375:floodplain
362:quadrangle
168:Basin size
125:75°59′24″W
122:41°28′25″N
355:watershed
349:Watershed
335:sandstone
305:sea level
287:Hydrology
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210:Sugar Run
422:See also
372:100-year
343:wetlands
323:alluvium
410:Biology
403:culvert
381:History
331:bedrock
262:wetland
309:source
248:Course
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339:shale
301:mouth
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