Latham Creek is a stream in
Georgia, and is a tributary of the
Chestatee River. The creek is approximately long.
[ file geodatabase (GDB) at ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/Hydro/FileGDB101/]
Course
Latham Creek
rises as it flows out of Pine Lake in western
Hall County, just southwest of the intersection of
State Route 136 and Cool Springs Road, and just south of the community of Price.
The creek heads southwest, then south for approximately 1.4 miles, then picks up an unnamed branch that rises just east of Latham Creek, before continuing southeast and meeting another unnamed branch from the northwest. The creek flows into and forms the Latham Creek arm of
Lake Lanier just east of the Chestatee River arm of the lake, into which it merges at its meeting point with the
Thompson Creek sub-watershed. The Latham Creek arm also receives two additional unnamed branches coming from the north and east, respectively, before Latham Creek meets the Chestatee River, which is submerged under Lake Lanier at the point of their
confluence
In geography, a confluence (also: ''conflux'') occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main stem); o ...
at the intersection of the Chestatee and Latham Lake Lanier arms just west of
State Route 53.
Sub-watershed details
The creek
watershed
Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to:
Hydrology
* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
and associated waters is designated by the
United States Geological Survey as sub-
watershed
Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to:
Hydrology
* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
HUC 031300010703, is named the Latham Creek sub-watershed, and drains an area of approximately 11 square miles halfway between
Dawsonville to the northwest and
Gainesville to the southeast. The sub-watershed drains the western portion of the area between the Chestatee River arm and the
Wahoo Creek-Little River arm of Lake Lanier at the northwestern part of the lake, north of State Route 53.
See also
*
Water Resource Region
*
South Atlantic-Gulf Water Resource Region
*
Apalachicola basin
References
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Latham Creek (Chestatee River)
Latham Creek is a stream in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, and is a tributary of the Chestatee River. The creek is approximately long. file geodatabase (GDB) at ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/Hydro/FileGDB101/
Course
Latha ...
Rivers of Hall County, Georgia