Beaver Creek is a long 4th order tributary to the New Hope River in North Carolina. Beaver Creek joins the New Hope River within the B. Everett Jordan Lake Reservoir.

Course

Beaver Creek rises in a pond on the Crabtree Creek divide in Apex in

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. Beaver Creek then flows west to meet New Hope River in the B. Everett Jordan Lake Reservoir in Chatham County.

Watershed

Beaver Creek drains of area, receives about 47.1 in/year of precipitation, has a

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of 468.29, and had an average water temperature of 15.31 °C. The watershed is 19% developed, 1.4% agricultural, 52% forested, and 6.2% open water.

References

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