Bow Creek (Swatara Creek)
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Bow Creek is a 7.8 miles (12.6 km) tributary
of Swatara Creek
in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
in the United States
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Bow Creek joins Swatara Creek near the community of Sand Beach
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Tributary
A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...
of Swatara Creek
Swatara Creek
Swatara Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in east central Pennsylvania in the United States. "Swatara" is an Indian word meaning "Where we feed on eels."...
in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Dauphin County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and is one of the three counties comprising the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2010 census, the population was 268,100. The county includes the city of Harrisburg, which has served as the state capital...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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Bow Creek joins Swatara Creek near the community of Sand Beach
Sand Beach, Pennsylvania
Sand Beach is an unincorporated community in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the Harrisburg-Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area, nearby locating in the vicinity of the census-designated place of Hershey, Pennsylvania, the latitude is 40.309, and the longitude -76.668, its elevation is 361...
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