North Fork (Aarons Creek Tributary)
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North Fork is a long 2nd order tributary to
Aarons Creek Aarons Creek is a long 3rd order tributary to the Dan River in Halifax County, Virginia. Aarons Creek forms the boundary of Halifax and Mecklenburg Counties, Virginia up to the Dan River. Variant names According to the Geographic Names Infor ...
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Halifax County, Virginia Halifax County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 34,022. Its county seat is Halifax. History Occupied by varying cultures of indigenous peoples for thousands of years, in histo ...
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Variant names

According to the
Geographic Names Information System The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories, Antarctica, and the associated states of ...
, it has also been known historically as: * North Fork Aaron Creek * North Fork Aarons Creek * North Fork Haron Creek


Course

North Fork rises in a pond at the North Carolina-Virginia state line at
Virgilina, Virginia Virgilina is a town in Halifax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 154 at the 2010 census. Virgilina was once a copper mining town. It was a stop on the Atlantic and Danville Railway as recently as the 1950s. It is named "Virgili ...
, and then flows generally northeast to join
Aarons Creek Aarons Creek is a long 3rd order tributary to the Dan River in Halifax County, Virginia. Aarons Creek forms the boundary of Halifax and Mecklenburg Counties, Virginia up to the Dan River. Variant names According to the Geographic Names Infor ...
about 1 mile southeast of Midway.


Watershed

North Fork drains of area, receives about 45.5 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 412.33, and is about 52% forested.


See also

*
List of Virginia Rivers This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Virginia. By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries, arranged in the order of their confluence from mouth to source, indented under each larger stream's nam ...


References

Rivers of Virginia Rivers of Halifax County, Virginia Tributaries of the Roanoke River {{Virginia-river-stub