Broad Run (Occoquan River tributary) explained
Broad Run is a 38adj=midNaNadj=mid[1] tributary of the Occoquan River in the U.S. state of Virginia. It rises in Fauquier County and passes through Thoroughfare Gap. A gazetteer from the mid-nineteenth century described it as a small stream, a valuable mill stream.[2]
The creek should not be confused with the nearby Broad Run (a tributary of the Potomac River) that flows through Loudoun County, Virginia.
It ultimately feeds the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
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38.6882°N -77.4889°W
Notes and References
- Web site: U.S. Geological Survey . National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data . The National Map . 2011-08-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ . 2012-03-29 .
- Book: Richard . Edwards . 1855 . 187 . . Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia: Embracing Important Topographical and Historical Information from Recent and Original Sources, Together with the Results of the Last Census Population, in Most Cases, to 1854 . For the proprietor . 2014-01-02 . BROAD RUN, a small stream in the N.E. part of Virginia, rises in Fauquier county, flows south-eastward, and unites with Cedar run to form the Occoquan river, about 1 mile below Brentsville. It is a valuable mill stream..
