Kern Glen Creek begins to the southeast of Kintner Hill in Lemon Township.

[1] Kern Glen Creek joins Billings Mill Brook 0.76 miles (1.22 km) upstream of its mouth.

There is also a small patch of bedrock consisting of sandstone and shale near the creek's lower reaches.

[2] Kern Glen Creek was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on August 2, 1979.

[4] This variant name appears in Israel C. White's 1883 book The geology of the North Branch Susquehanna River Region in the six counties of Wyoming, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Columbia, Montour and Northumberland.

once applied for and/or received a permit to build and maintain a 24-inch (61 cm) natural gas gathering pipeline and timber mats impacting an unnamed tributary Kern Glen Creek.