| Licking Run | |
| Image Alt: | image of a postcard depicting Licking Run Creek, Memorial Park, Quakertown, Pa. |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Pennsylvania |
| Pushpin Map Size: | 250 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Licking Run |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Pushpin map showing location of Licking Run |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | United States |
| Subdivision Type2: | State |
| Subdivision Name2: | Pennsylvania |
| Subdivision Type3: | County |
| Subdivision Name3: | Bucks |
| Subdivision Type4: | Township, Borough |
| Subdivision Name4: | Richland, Quakertown |
| Length: | 3.36miles |
| Source1 Elevation: | 600feet |
| Mouth Elevation: | 490feet |
| Progression: | Licking Run → Beaver Run → Tohickon Creek → Delaware River → Delaware Bay |
| River System: | Delaware River |
| Bridges: | West Pumping Station Road Kelly Drive Sunshine Drive Golden Gate Drive West Mill Street North Main Street (California Road) North 9th Street North 4th Street Pennsylvania Route 212 (North Hellertown Avenue) North Ambler Street North Penrose Street (foot bridge) Erie Road |
Licking Run is a tributary of Beaver Run in Richland Township and Quakertown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the United States.[1] [2]
Licking Run rises with two branches in Richland Township at an elevation of 600feet, just east of Pennsylvania Route 309 (North West End Boulevard) which are south oriented for about a mile and join just west of Quakertown where the main branch turns east, picks up another branch from the left and continues through town. It passes along the south side of Memorial Park in Quakertown. At the east end of the Borough, it turns to the south where it meets its confluence with Beaver Run (at Beaver Run's 0.82 river mile) at an elevation of 490feet, which results in an average slope of 32.74 feet per mile (5.55 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]