Harker's Run (Ohio)

Infobox River | river_name = Harker's Run

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caption = Winter Scene 2002-2003
origin = Preble County, Ohio, USA.
mouth = Four Mile Creek, Ohio, USA
basin_countries = United States
length = convert|4.8|mi|km|1
elevation = convert|1000|ft|m|0
discharge =
watershed =

Harker's Run (or Harkers Run) is a stream located in Preble County, Ohio, USA. Harker's Run drains into Four Mile Creek on the western edge of the campus of Miami University in Oxford just north of where the Trenton Oxford Road crosses Four Mile Creek. The stream flows roughly from north to south, and is approximately convert|4.8|mi|km|1 in total length. The elevation at the mouth of the stream is convert|775|ft|m|0 above sea level. At its highest point, the stream is at approximately convert|1000|ft|m|0 elevation. The stream is crossed by bridges on Bonham Road, Somerville Road, Hamilton Richmond Road, and Oxford Germantown Road.

Most of Harker's Run lies within the Bachelor Wildlife and Game Reserve, owned and managed by Miami University. The preserve contains land once owned by Joseph M. Bachelor, a professor of English at the university from 1927 to 1946, which was willed to the university upon his death in 1947.Harmon, Sally and Myers, Max and Lane, Spencer (2002). [http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/evol02/FinalArticles/EcologicalSuccessionandIn.html "Ecological Succession and Invertebrate Diversity at Harker's Run"] . Retrieved Aug. 16, 2006.] An extensive hiking trail system in the Reserve includes a convert|45|ft|m|0 long swinging bridge across Harker's Run.Miami University (2006). [http://www.units.muohio.edu/naturalareas/trails/ Miami University Natural Areas: Trails] . Retrieved Aug. 16, 2006.] The confluence of this tributary to the larger Talawanda Creek is a convert|0.25|mi|km|2 south of the historic Zachariah Price Dewitt Cabin. There is parking on the east side of of the Ohio State Route 73 bridge across Talawanda Creek on the north side of the road.

References

;General References

*Western Biographical Publishing Co. (1882) [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler/cyc/502.htm Oxford Township A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County Ohio] , Western Biographical Publishing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. pp. 502-504.
*Wright, Charles. (1976). "The Ballad of Elliot Harker and Ellen Vane." "The Oxford Press Bicentennial Series". Oxford, Ohio: The Oxford Press, published weekly between July 1975 and July 1976.

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