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〕 | mouth_name = West Branch Susquehanna River | mouth_location = Piatt Township | mouth_district = | mouth_region = Lycoming County | mouth_state = Pennsylvania | mouth_country = | mouth_note = | mouth_lat_d = 41 | mouth_lat_m = 13 | mouth_lat_s = 00 | mouth_lat_NS = N | mouth_long_d = 77 | mouth_long_m = 13 | mouth_long_s = 13 | mouth_long_EW = W | mouth_coordinates_note = 〔 | mouth_elevation_imperial = 515 | mouth_elevation_note = 〔 | length_imperial = 22.9 | length_round = 1 | length_note = 〔 | watershed_imperial = 89.1 | watershed_round = 1 | watershed_note = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Chesapeake Bay Program: Watershed Profiles: The Larrys Creek - At Larrys Creek Watershed ) 〕 | discharge_location = Mouth | discharge_round = 2 | discharge_imperial = 66.0 | discharge_note = | discharge_max_imperial = 114 | discharge_min_imperial = 8.8 | discharge1_location = Cogan House | discharge1_imperial = 10.8 | discharge1_note = 〔 | map = Larrys Creek Watershed Map.PNG | map_size = 300 | map_caption = Map showing Larrys Creek, its major tributaries and watershed | map1 = Pennsylvania Locator Map.PNG | map1_size = 300 | map1_caption = Location of the Mouth of Larrys Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania | map1_locator = Pennsylvania | commons = Larrys Creek }} Larrys Creek is a 〔U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. (The National Map ), accessed August 8, 2011〕 tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Lycoming County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. A part of the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin, its watershed drains in six townships and a borough. The creek flows south from the dissected Allegheny Plateau to the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians through sandstone, limestone, and shale from the Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian periods. The valley's first recorded inhabitants were the Susquehannocks, followed by the Lenape and other tribes.〔 ''Note:'' ISBN refers to the Heritage Books July 1996 reprint. URL is to a scan of the 1892 version with some OCR typos.〕 The Great Shamokin Path crossed the creek near its mouth, where Larry Burt, the first Euro-American settler and the man who gave the creek its present name, also lived by 1769. In the 19th century, the creek and its watershed were a center for logging and related industries, including 53 sawmills, grist mills, leather tanneries, coal and iron mines. A 1903 newspaper article claimed "No other stream in the country had so many mills in so small a territory". For transportation, a plank road ran along much of the creek for decades, and two "paper railroads" were planned, but never built. As of 2006, the Larrys Creek watershed is 83.1% forest and 15.7% agricultural (a reforestation of land clear-cut in the 19th century). Nearly of second-growth forest are protected public and private land for hunting and trout fishing, with more land protected in parts of Tiadaghton State Forest. Pollution from past industrial use is gone and Larrys Creek "has an exceptionally scenic, ultra-highwater, whitewater run" for canoeing. Despite agricultural runoff and small amounts of acid mine drainage, water quality is quite good, and a water filtration plant on Larrys Creek supplies over 2500 customers. == Name == Larrys Creek is named for Larry Burt, the first European settler in the area, who lived near the mouth of the creek outside what is now the hamlet of Larrys Creek in Piatt Township. He traded with the indigenous peoples, and, according to a tradition reported by Meginness (1892), he had a Native American wife.〔 〕 Larry Burt was already there when surveyors came through in 1769 (after the land was purchased by the colonial government of Pennsylvania on November 5, 1768 as part of the "New Purchase" in the first Treaty of Fort Stanwix), but disappeared sometime soon after, perhaps moving west with the Native Americans who left the area.〔 Larrys Creek is the only major creek in Lycoming County for which a Native American name is unknown. As of 2006, it is the only stream named "Larrys Creek" on USGS maps of the United States and in the USGS Geographic Names Information System.〔 The possessive apostrophe is not part of the official name of the creek, although records from the 19th century often spell it as "Larry's Creek" (as do today). Today the creek has given its name to the hamlet at its mouth, as well as the village of "Larryville" further upstream. Before it became a borough, Salladasburg was also known as "Larrys Creek" (from the name of its post office). The "First Fork" and "Second Fork" of Larrys Creek are named in the order in which they are encountered traveling upstream, with "Fork" here denoting a major tributary. "Lawshe Run", the major tributary of the Second Fork, is named for Robert Lawshe, who established a tannery in Salladasburg in 1848.〔 〕 "Seeley Run", a minor tributary entering the creek at Larryville, is named for Mr. Seely, who built the first sawmill on Larrys Creek in 1796.〔 While the USGS uses "Seeley Run", it is still "Seely Run Road" that follows the stream. The First Fork, Canoe Run, Joes Run, and Wolf Run also have roads named for them.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Larrys Creek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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