Coles Branch (Crabtree Creek tributary)
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Coles Branch Tributary to Crabtree Creek | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | North Carolina |
County | Wake |
City | Cary |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | divide between Coles Branch and Swift Creek |
• location | Cary, North Carolina |
• coordinates | 35°46′59″N 078°48′19″W / 35.78306°N 78.80528°W[1] |
• elevation | 416 ft (127 m)[2] |
Mouth | Crabtree Creek |
• location | Cary, North Carolina |
• coordinates | 35°48′10″N 078°50′02″W / 35.80278°N 78.83389°WCoordinates: 35°48′10″N 078°50′02″W / 35.80278°N 78.83389°W[1] |
• elevation | 305 ft (93 m)[1] |
Length | 2.7 mi (4.3 km)[3] |
Basin size | 2.60 square miles (6.7 km2)[4] |
Discharge | |
• location | Crabtree Creek |
• average | 2.60 cu ft/s (0.074 m3/s) at mouth with Crabtree Creek[4] |
Basin features | |
Progression | Crabtree Creek → Neuse River → Pamlico Sound → Atlantic Ocean |
River system | Neuse River |
Tributaries | |
• left | unnamed tributaries |
• right | unnamed tributaries |
Coles Branch is a 2.7 mi (4.3 km) long tributary to Crabtree Creek in Wake County, North Carolina and is classed as a 2nd order stream on the EPA waters geoviewer site.[4]
Course
Coles Branch rises in a pond in western Cary, North Carolina, and then flows northwest to Crabtree Creek. It is a developed watershed with only 7% of the watershed considered to be forested.[4]
Watershed
Coles Branch drains 2.60 square miles (6.7 km2) of area in the western part of Cary, North Carolina. Coles Branch is underlaid by the Deep River Basin.[5] The watershed receives an average of 46.4 in/year of precipitation and has a wetness index of 413.95.[4]
References
- ^ a b c "GNIS Detail - Coles Branch". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ "Coles Branch Topo Map, Wake County NC (Cary Area)". TopoZone. Locality, LLC. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ "ArcGIS Web Application". epa.maps.arcgis.com. US EPA. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "Coles Branch Watershed Report". Waters Geoviewer. US EPA. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ "Generalized Bedrock Geologic Map of Wake County, North Carolina" (PDF). County of Wake. Wake County, North Carolina government. Retrieved 27 September 2019.