Falling Creek (James River tributary)

A swollen Falling Creek
This 1888 map of Chesterfield County shows how Falling Creek rises in the Salisbury section of northwestern Chesterfield County (near the Midlothian coal mines) and flows through Southside Richmond to the James River.

Falling Creek is a tributary of the James River located near Richmond, Virginia, United States. Approximately 23 miles (37 km) in length,[1] it varies in width between 10 feet (3.0 m) at its source to several hundred feet in the Falling Creek Reservoir. Falling Creek rises in the Salisbury section of northwestern Chesterfield County, flows through Southside Richmond and empties into the James River roughly one mile south of the Richmond city limits. A dam located in the Meadowbrook section of the county at Hopkins Road forms the Falling Creek Reservoir, formerly used as northern Chesterfield's drinking water supply.

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed October 24, 2011