The stream begins flowing southwest and then northwest in a valley, but after a short distance curves north, following the road.

[3] It then exits Rush Township and enters the community of Riverside, where it turns west-northwest, away from the road.

It receives the tributary Wilson Run from the left and then passes through a series of small ponds.

[4] Kipps Run joins the Susquehanna River 134.14 miles (215.88 km) upstream of its mouth.

To the west of it and to the south of Sunbury Road, there is a steep rise climbing to more than 900 feet (270 m) above sea level.

[6] The average annual amount of precipitation in the watershed of Kipps Run is 38.2 inches (97 cm) per year.

[7] In the area that is to the west of Kipps Run and to the south of Sunbury Road, there is mostly forested land with some farms on the tops of the hills.

[6] In 1790, William Gearhart settled near in Northumberland County and gained possession of a tract of land near Kipps Run.

[6] In the late 1960s, the borough of Riverside had plans to build a pumping station in the vicinity of the stream.