Big Mountain Branch Tributary to Aarons Creek | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Virginia |
County | Halifax |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | North Fork divide |
• location | Red Bank, Virginia |
• coordinates | 36°35′30″N 078°44′57″W / 36.59167°N 78.74917°W[1] |
• elevation | 490 ft (150 m)[2] |
Mouth | |
• location | about 1 mile northwest of Nelson, Virginia |
• coordinates | 36°34′13″N 078°43′52″W / 36.57028°N 78.73111°W[1] |
• elevation | 351 ft (107 m)[3] |
Length | 2.11 mi (3.40 km)[4] |
Basin size | 2.44 square miles (6.3 km2)[5] |
Discharge | |
• location | Aarons Creek |
• average | 3.09 cu ft/s (0.087 m3/s) at mouth with Aarons Creek[5] |
Basin features | |
Progression | Aarons Creek → Dan River → Roanoke River → Albemarle Sound → Pamlico Sound → Atlantic Ocean |
River system | Roanoke River |
Tributaries | |
• left | unnamed tributaries |
• right | unnamed tributaries |
Bridges | Rip Rap Road, George Phillips Trail |
Big Mountain Branch is a 2.11 mi (3.40 km) long 2nd order tributary to Aarons Creek in Halifax County, Virginia.