Hewletts Creek is a stream in
New Hanover County, North Carolina
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, in the
United States
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. It is the only stream of its name in the United States.
Hewletts Creek was named for a family of settlers.
Variant names
According to the
Geographic Names Information System
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, it has also been known historically as:
*Hewlet Creek
*Hewlets Creek
Course
Hewletts Creek rises on the Cape Fear River divide in Pine Valley Country Club of
Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington is a port city in and the county seat of New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States.
With a population of 115,451 at the 2020 census, it is the eighth most populous city in the state. Wilmington is t ...
and then flows east and southeast to the
Intracoastal Waterway
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in
Masonboro, North Carolina.
Watershed
Hewletts Creek drains of area, receives about 57.9 in/year of precipitation, and has a wetness index of 586.63 and is about 11% forested.
See also
*
List of rivers of North Carolina
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries alphabetically indented under each larger stream's name.
Atlantic Ocean
* North Landing Rive ...
References
Rivers of New Hanover County, North Carolina
Rivers of North Carolina
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