Thompson Creek is a stream in
Georgia, and is a tributary of the
Chestatee River. The creek is approximately long.
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Course
Thompson Creek
rises in eastern
Dawson County, just west of
U.S. Route 19
U.S. Route 19 (US 19) is a north–south U.S. Highway in the Eastern United States. Despite encroaching Interstate Highways, the route has remained a long-haul road, connecting the Gulf of Mexico with Lake Erie.
The highway's southern ...
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State Route 400 and just north of
State Route 53, and southeast of
Dawsonville.
The creek heads southeast for less than a half a mile, then crosses US 19/SR 400 and heads south along the highway, before turning east and forming the Thompson Creek arm of
Lake Lanier, which is the westernmost arm of the lake, just east of SR 400. This arm also receives one additional unnamed branch coming from the south, before Thompson 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 Thompson Lake Lanier arms.
Sub-watershed details
The creek
watershed
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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 031300010702, is named the Thompson Creek-Chestatee River sub-watershed, and drains an area of approximately 23 square miles southeast of Dawsonville. The sub-watershed also encompasses a significant southern portion of the
Chestatee River arm of Lake Lanier at the border of Dawson County and
Hall County to a point just north of State Route 53 and Keith Bridge, and dips into
Forsyth County at its southern end. The Chestatee River enters the sub-watershed immediately south of the
Yellow Creek sub-watershed, and drains and picks up an unnamed branch from the east, as well as
Toto Creek
Toto Creek is a stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain ch ...
and two other unnamed branches from the west.
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
The ACF River Basin is the drainage basin, or watershed, of the Apalachicola River, Chattahoochee River, and Flint River, in the Southeastern United States.
This area is alternatively known as simply the Apalachicola Basin and is listed by t ...
References
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Thompson Creek (Chestatee River)
Rivers of Dawson County, Georgia