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The watershed of
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Catawissa Creek at the mouth of
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Furnace Run joins
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Furnace Run has one unnamed tributary. It is known as "Trib 27545 to
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in the watershed are the Hazleton soil and the Leck Kill soil.
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Catawissa Creek in Main Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
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Furnace Run was named in the middle of the 1800s after an
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