Mink Run | |
Name Other: | Rabbit Run |
Pushpin Map: | USA Pennsylvania |
Pushpin Map Size: | 250 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Mink Run |
Pushpin Map Alt: | pushpin map showing location of Mink 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: | Bedminster |
Length: | 2.05miles |
Source1 Elevation: | 397feet |
Mouth Elevation: | 282feet |
Progression: | Mink Run → Tohickon Creek → Delaware River → Delaware Bay |
River System: | Delaware River |
Basin Size: | 2.1sqmi |
Bridges: | Sweetbriar Road Fretz ValleyRoad Deer Run Road Farm School Road |
Custom Label: | Slope |
Custom Data: | 56.1ft/mi |
Mink Run (Rabbit Run) is a tributary of the Tohickon Creek in Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the United States.[1]
Mink Run rises just east of Fairview Road in Bedminster Township and is part of the Delaware River watershed. Its GNIS identification number is 1181342 and was entered into the GNIS system on 2 August 1797, its Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources identification number is 03145, has a watershed of 2.1sqmi, and it meets its confluence at the Tohickon Creek's 8.01 river mile.
Mink Run begins about 1.3miles southeast of Lake Nockamixon at an elevation of 397feet and runs about 1.4miles where it turns south-southeast and picks up two tributaries, one on either side, after flowing another 0.5miles mile it shares its mouth with Deer Run at an elevation of 282feet. Its average slope is 56.1ft/mi Wolf Run meets the Tohickon only a couple hundred feet downstream of Mink Run's confluence.
Wolf Run lies within the Brunswick Formation in the Newark Basin laid down during the Jurassic and the Triassic. Rocks includes mudstone, siltstone, and reddish-brown, green, and brown shale. Mineralogy includes red and dark-gray argillite and hornfels.[2]