Taylor Creek is a stream in
Georgia
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, and is a tributary of the
Chestatee River The Chestatee River (variant spellings Chestatie, Chestetee, Chostatee, Chosteta, Chestotee; none in modern use) is a file geodatabase (GDB) at ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/Hydro/FileGDB101/ river in the Appalachian Mountain ...
. The creek is approximately long.
[ file geodatabase (GDB) at ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/Hydro/FileGDB101/]
Course
Taylor Creek
rises in northeastern
Forsyth County, in the middle of a triangle formed by
U.S. Route 19
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State Route 400 to the west,
State Route 53 to the north and east, and
State Route 306 to the south, and northwest of the community of Chestatee. The area is also the location of the headwaters of 3 other major creeks (namely, clockwise from the west,
Settingdown Creek, Twomile Creek, and Fourmile Creek), and is the meeting point of 4 sub-watersheds.
The creek heads north, then northeast, for approximately 1.6 miles, then picks up an unnamed branch from the west just before crossing State Route 53, right at the border between Forsyth County and
Hall County. Taylor Creek curves very briefly back into Forsyth County, then reenters Hall County, heading east-northeast, and flows into and forms the Taylor Creek arm of
Lake Lanier
Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a reservoir in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created by the completion of Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River in 1956, and is also fed by the waters of the Chestatee Ri ...
just west of the Chestatee River arm of the lake, into which it merges at its meeting point with the
Thompson Creek sub-watershed. The Taylor Creek arm also receives three additional unnamed branches coming from the south and west, before Taylor Creek meets the Chestatee River, which is submerged under Lake Lanier at the point of their
confluence
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at the intersection of the Chestatee and Taylor Lake Lanier arms just north of
State Route 53, and opposite of the entry of the
Latham Creek arm into the Chestatee River arm of the lake.
Sub-watershed details
The creek
watershed
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and associated waters is designated by the
United States Geological Survey
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as sub-
watershed
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* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
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HUC 031300010704, is named the Taylor Creek sub-watershed, and drains an area of approximately 10 square miles west of
Gainesville and just north of Chestatee. The sub-watershed drains the area south of the Thompson Creek sub-watershed and west of the southern portion of the submerged Chestatee River.
See also
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Water Resource Region
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South Atlantic-Gulf Water Resource Region
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Apalachicola basin
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References
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Taylor Creek (Chestatee River) Taylor 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
Taylor Creek rises in north ...
Rivers of Hall County, Georgia
Rivers of Forsyth County, Georgia