Town Creek is a stream in
Georgia
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, and is a tributary of
Tesnatee Creek
Tesnatee Creek is a stream in Georgia, and is a tributary of the Chestatee River. The creek is approximately long. file geodatabase (GDB) at ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/Hydro/FileGDB101/
''Tesnatee'' is a name derived ...
, which in turns is a tributary of the
Chestatee River
The Chestatee River (variant spellings Chestatie, Chestetee, Chostatee, Chosteta, Chestotee; none in modern use) is a file geodatabase (GDB) at ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/Hydro/FileGDB101/ river in the Appalachian Mounta ...
. The creek is approximately long.
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Course
Town Creek
rises in northwestern
White County, just south of where
State Route 348 turns north into
Union County, at the north end of
Tesnatee Gap Tesnatee Gap is a mountain pass in the U.S. state of Georgia.
''Tesnatee'' is a name derived from the Cherokee language meaning "wild turkey". Variant names are "Tessantee Gap" and "Tosnata Gap".
The pass is crossed by the Appalachian Trail
T ...
in
Raven Cliffs Wilderness.
The creek heads south for approximately 3.6 miles, picking up two unnamed branches from the east on the way, before it first meets with White Creek coming from the east, an unnamed branch from the west, then Turner Creek, also coming from the east, before it crosses
U.S. Route 129
U.S. Route 129 (US 129) is an Auxiliary U.S. Route, auxiliary route of U.S. Route 29, US 29, which it Intersection (road), intersects in Athens, Georgia. US 129 currently runs for from an intersection with U.S. Route 19 in Florid ...
east of Turners Corner. Town Creek continues to the south for approximately 5.6 miles, joining with 2 more unnamed branches from the west and one from the east, before its confluence with Glade Branch and then Jenny Creek. The creek flows into Tesnatee Creek about 1.5 miles further south, southwest of
Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...
.
Sub-watershed details
The creek
watershed
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and associated waters is designated by the
United States Geological Survey
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as sub-
watershed
Watershed may refer to:
Hydrology
* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, an area of land where surface water converges (North American usage)
Music
* Watershed Music Festival, an annual country ...
HUC 031300010503, is named the Town Creek sub-watershed, and drains an area of approximately 26 square miles northwest of Cleveland, and northeast of the Chestatee River.
See also
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Water Resource Region
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South Atlantic-Gulf Water Resource Region
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Etymology
The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...
*
Apalachicola basin
The Apalachicola–Chattahoochee–Flint River Basin (the ACF River Basin) is the drainage basin, or watershed, of the Apalachicola River, Chattahoochee River, and Flint River (Georgia), Flint River, in the Southeastern United States.
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References
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Town Creek (Chestatee River)
Rivers of White County, Georgia