Browns Creek Tributary to Cape Fear River | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | North Carolina |
County | Bladen |
City | Elizabethtown |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Sheriff White Bay, a Carolina Bay |
• location | about 1 mile southeast of Dublin, North Carolina |
• coordinates | 34°38′03″N 078°41′07″W / 34.63417°N 78.68528°W[1] |
• elevation | 125 ft (38 m)[2] |
Mouth | Cape Fear River |
• location | about 1.5 miles east of Elizabethtown, North Carolina |
• coordinates | 34°37′33″N 078°33′36″W / 34.62583°N 78.56000°W[1] |
• elevation | 23 ft (7.0 m)[2] |
Length | 18.79 mi (30.24 km)[3] |
Basin size | 18.79 square miles (48.7 km2)[4] |
Discharge | |
• location | Cape Fear River |
• average | 21.00 cu ft/s (0.595 m3/s) at mouth with Cape Fear River[4] |
Basin features | |
Progression | Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean |
River system | Cape Fear River |
Tributaries | |
• left | unnamed tributaries |
• right | unnamed tributaries |
Waterbodies | Cross Pond |
Bridges | Hugs Hog Farm Road, Browns Creek Church Road, Westwood Drive, unnamed road, Peanut Plant Road, NC 87, Martin Luther King Drive, US 701-NC 242, Mercer Mill Road, NC 87 |
Browns Creek is a 27.78 mi (44.71 km) long 2nd order tributary to the Cape Fear River in Bladen County, North Carolina.