{{Short description|Watercourse in Pennsylvania, US}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} thumb|Kinney Run near its headwaters, looking upstream (March 2015) '''Kinney Run''', also known as '''Kinney's Run''',<ref>{{Citation|author = J. H. Battle|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CMwwAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Kinney+Run%22&pg=PA1|title = History of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania|year = 1887|access-date = October 7, 2013}}</ref> is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Scott Township and Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately {{convert|3.1|mi|km}} long.<ref name = "google maps">{{Citation|url = https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Kinney_Run|title = Google Maps|year = 2013|access-date = October 3, 2013}}</ref> Some of the first settlers to the Kinney Run area arrived in 1769. There are a number of wetlands and one bog, which is called the Espy Bog, in the stream's watershed.
==Course== left|thumb|Kinney Run near its headwaters, looking upstream (October 2013) Kinney Run rises in Scott Township.<ref name = "villanova"/> It heads through moderately steep or steep uplands along 5th Street Hollow Road before crossing 5th Street Hollow Road, passing a forested area<ref name = "map6"/> and U.S. Route 11 into a flood plain.<ref name = "google maps"/><ref name = "villanova"/> After crossing under U.S. Route 11, the stream goes through the Espy Bog.<ref name = "map6">{{Citation|url = http://bloomsburgpa.org/wp-content/uploads/Map6EnvironmentallySensitiveFeaturesMap.pdf|title = Map6EnvironmentallySensitiveFeaturesMap|access-date = October 7, 2013|archive-date = October 17, 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131017064831/http://bloomsburgpa.org/wp-content/uploads/Map6EnvironmentallySensitiveFeaturesMap.pdf|url-status = dead}}</ref> The last {{convert|3.2|km|mi}} are on a flood plain. Here, the stream has a gradient of 0.002 meters downwards per meter. The flood plain that Kinney Run flows through is shared by another stream, called Unnamed Tributary Number 10.<ref name = "villanova"/> Kinney Run then flows into Bloomsburg, passing by three wetlands and the Bloomsburg Town Park before emptying into the Susquehanna River at the end of Market Street.<ref name = "map6"/><ref name = "history">{{Citation|author = John Gosse Freeze|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZjwuAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Kinney+Run%22+pennsylvania&pg=PA50|title = A History of Columbia County, Pennsylvania: From the Earliest Times|year = 1888|access-date = October 7, 2013}}</ref> Downstream of the point where Kinney Run crosses 5th Street Hollow Road, it passes by only two areas of steep slopes. Both of these areas are in Bloomsburg.<ref name = "map6"/>
==Hydrology== The installation of pipes carrying stormwater into Kinney Run due to development in the watershed has increased erosion in the upper reaches of the stream. This has caused silt to be washed downstream.<ref name = "villanova"/>
There are several structures that divert water away from Kinney Run. One of these was constructed in 1972, after Hurricane Agnes, to divert water from the stream under the runway of the Bloomsburg Municipal Airport directly to the Susquehanna River.<ref name = "villanova"/>
Typically, when Kinney Run floods, it occurs at the same time as when the Susquehanna River floods. In two storms, Kinney Run has flooded twice. The first time was due to precipitation and the second time was due to backwater from the Susquehanna River. The two floods were the 1972 flood caused by Hurricane Agnes and a flood in January 1996. The second flood occurred approximately 24 hours after the first one on both times. However, in other storms, Kinney Run has only flooded once.<ref name = "villanova"/>
==Watershed== thumb|Satellite map of Kinney Run. The red dot is the stream's source and blue dot is its mouth. Kinney Run's watershed has an area of {{convert|3.2|sqmi|sqkm}}. Stormwater management has been a problem on Kinney Run for many years. The stream's watershed is entirely in southeastern Bloomsburg and southwestern Scott Township.<ref name = "villanova">{{Citation|url = http://static2.docstoccdn.com/docs/157921123/Kinney-Run-And-Tributary-No|title = Kinney Run and Tributary No. 10 Stormwater Analysis|access-date = October 3, 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140521214311/http://static2.docstoccdn.com/docs/157921123/Kinney-Run-And-Tributary-No|archive-date = May 21, 2014|url-status = dead}}</ref>
Kinney Run is also home to a number of wetlands, as well as stormwater storage areas. The wetlands are large, and there is a large number of them. The stormwater storage areas exist due to the existence of railroad fills and highway fills in the watershed. There are two places on the stream where stormwater is diverted either to the Susquehanna River or the unnamed Tributary Number 10.<ref name = "villanova"/>
==History== In 1769, Evan Owen, the founder of the community of Berwick, settled at the mouth of Kinney Run.<ref>{{Citation|author = J.H. Beers|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jEkVAAAAYAAJ&q=Kinney%27s+Run&pg=PA104|title = Historical and Biographical Annals of Columbia and Montour Counties|year = 1915|access-date = October 7, 2013}}</ref> Before the late 1800s, Kinney Run was well known to raftmen.<ref name = "history"/>
The Kinney Run watershed has seen a large amount of development, both commercial and residential, since the 1970s and early 1980s. As most of the portion of Kinney Run that was in Bloomsburg, most of the development occurred in Scott Township.<ref name = "villanova"/>
==See also== *Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River), next tributary of the Susquehanna River going downriver *Tenmile Run (Susquehanna River), next tributary of the Susquehanna River going upriver *List of rivers of Pennsylvania
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==External links== * [http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/g.cgi?fid=1182196&state=PA&ftype=stream Map of the mouth of Kinney Run] {{Commons and category}} {{Susquehanna River System}} {{Authority control}}
{{Coord|40.990524|-76.447384|region:US-PA_type:landmark|display=title|name=Kinney Run}}
Category:Rivers of Columbia County, Pennsylvania Category:Tributaries of the Susquehanna River Category:Rivers of Pennsylvania