| Beaver Run | |
| Name Other: | Muddy Run |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Pennsylvania |
| Pushpin Map Size: | 250 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Beaver Run |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | pushpin map showing location of Beaver Run |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | United States |
| Subdivision Type2: | State |
| Subdivision Name2: | Pennsylvania |
| Subdivision Type3: | County |
| Subdivision Name3: | Bucks |
| Subdivision Type4: | Township |
| Subdivision Name4: | Milford, Richland |
| Length: | 4.12miles |
| Source1 Elevation: | 530feet |
| Mouth Elevation: | 479feet |
| Progression: | Beaver Run → Tohickon Creek → Delaware River → Delaware Bay |
| River System: | Delaware River |
| Tributaries Left: | Licking Run |
| Bridges: | Freier Road Mayflower Drive Trumbauersville Road Pennsylvania Route 309 (South West End Boulevard) South Old Bethlehem Pike Front Street Pennsylvania Route 313 (East Broad Street) Nick Luca Drive |
Beaver Run is a tributary of the Tohickon Creek in Milford Township and Richland Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the United States and is part of the Delaware River watershed.
Beaver Run was first called Muddy Run as indicated on a draft of a 503acres owned by John Thompson, surveyed by Samuel Foulke on 15 November 1780.[1]
Beaver Run was added to the Geographic Names Information System on 2 August 1979 as identification number 1169032. It is listed in the Pennsylvania Gazatteer of Streams as identification number 03185. Its watershed is 5.31sqmi, and meets its confluence at the Tohickon Creek's 23.10 river mile.[2]
Beaver Run rises in Milford Township north of the borough of Trumbauersville at an elevation of 530feet and is east oriented for about 0.71miles where it receives an unnamed tributary from the left, then runs east southeast then turns northeast. Soon, it makes a sharp bend to the left to flow to the north northwest then back to northeast until it receives Licking Run from the left. It then meanders more or less east until it meets the Tohickon Creek at an elevation of 479feet about 450feet upstream from Morgan Creek's confluence. The stream has an average slope of 12.38 feet per mile (2.11 meters per kilometer).[3]
Beaver Run lies in the Brunswick Formation, a sedimentary rock laid down during the Jurassic and the Triassic, consisting of mudstone, siltstone, and green, brown, and reddish-brown shale. Mineralogy includes argillite and hornfels.[4]
| Crossing | NBI Number | Length | Lanes | Spans | Material/Design | Built | Reconstructed | Latitude | Longitude | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freier Road | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Mayflower Drive | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Trumbauersville Road | 43237 | 7m (23feet) | 2 | 1 | concrete Arch-Deck | 2005 | - | 40°25'40.4"N | 75°21'27.41"W | |
| Pennsylvania Route 309 (South West End Boulevard) | 6980 | 9m (30feet) | 2 | 1 | Concrete Tee Beam | 1936 | 1963 | 40°25'34.9"N | 75°20'56.15"W | |
| South Old Bethlehem Pike | 7694 | 8m (26feet) | 2 | 1 | Concrete Tee Beam | 1922 | - | 40°25'49.53"N | 75°20'39.6"W | |
| Front Street | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Pennsylvania Route 313 (East Broad Street) | 6997 | 12m (39feet) | 2 | 1 | Steel Stringer/Multi-beam or Girder | 1920 | - | 40°26'24.4"N | 75°19'36.8"W | |
| Nick Luca Drive | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |