Shorts Ditch Tributary to Deep Creek | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Delaware |
County | Sussex |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Gravelly Branch divide |
• location | about 2.5 miles southeast of Coverdale Crossroads, Delaware |
• coordinates | 38°41′59″N 075°29′54″W / 38.69972°N 75.49833°W[1] |
• elevation | 35 ft (11 m)[2] |
Mouth | Deep Creek |
• location | about 0.5 miles northeast of Old Furnace, Delaware |
• coordinates | 38°40′25″N 075°30′19″W / 38.67361°N 75.50528°W[1] |
• elevation | 20 ft (6.1 m)[3] |
Length | 2.14 mi (3.44 km)[4] |
Basin size | 2.53 square miles (6.6 km2)[5] |
Discharge | |
• location | Deep Creek |
• average | 3.08 cu ft/s (0.087 m3/s) at mouth with Deep Creek[5] |
Basin features | |
Progression | southwest[4] |
River system | Nanticoke River |
Tributaries | |
• left | unnamed tributaries |
• right | unnamed tributaries |
Bridges | Cokesbury Road |
Shorts Ditch is a 2.14 mi (3.44 km) long 1st order tributary to Deep Creek in Sussex County, Delaware. This is the only stream of this name in the United States.[1]