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Montgomery County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,610. The county seat is Mount Vernon. Montgomery County is part of the Vidalia, GA micropolitan statistical area.
Cadwell is a town in Laurens County, Georgia, United States. The population was 381 in 2020.
Forsyth is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County, Georgia, United States. The population was 4,384 at the 2020 census, up from 3,788 in 2010. Forsyth is part of the Macon metropolitan statistical area.
The Altamaha River is a major river in the U.S. state of Georgia. It flows generally eastward for 137 miles (220 km) from its origin at the confluence of the Oconee River and Ocmulgee River towards the Atlantic Ocean, where it empties into the ocean near Brunswick, Georgia. No dams are directly on the Altamaha, though some are on the Oconee and the Ocmulgee. Including its tributaries, the Altamaha River's drainage basin is about 14,000 square miles (36,000 km2) in size, qualifying it among the larger river basins of the US Atlantic coast.
The Ocmulgee River is a western tributary of the Altamaha River, approximately 255 mi (410 km) long, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the westernmost major tributary of the Altamaha. It was formerly known by its Hitchiti name of Ocheese Creek, from which the Creek (Muscogee) people derived their name.
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Georgia, United States preserves traces of over ten millennia of culture from the Native Americans of the Southeastern Woodlands. Its chief remains are major earthworks built before 1000 CE by the South Appalachian Mississippian culture These include the Great Temple and other ceremonial mounds, a burial mound, and defensive trenches. They represented highly skilled engineering techniques and soil knowledge, and the organization of many laborers. The site has evidence of "12,000 years of continuous human habitation." The 3,336-acre (13.50 km2) park is located on the east bank of the Ocmulgee River. Macon, Georgia developed around the site after the United States built Fort Benjamin Hawkins nearby in 1806 to support trading with Native Americans.
Otter Creek may refer to some places in the North America:
Alligator Creek is a 48.6-mile-long (78.2 km) tributary of the Little Ocmulgee River in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Gum Swamp Creek is a tributary of the Little Ocmulgee River in the U.S. state of Georgia. Via the Little Ocmulgee and Ocmulgee rivers, it is part of the Altamaha River basin draining to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Towaliga River is a 52.3-mile-long (84.2 km) tributary of the Ocmulgee River in central Georgia. The Towaliga begins in Henry County and passes through High Falls State Park in northwestern Monroe County, then traverses the county and joins the Ocmulgee near the town of Juliette. The river begins north of Cole Reservoir in Henry County where it is joined by multiple creeks, including Thompson Creek, Troublesome Creek in Spalding County, Long Branch, and Lee Creek to gain size. The river is fairly muddy above High Falls Lake, but it clears once below the falls where most of the river is rock bottomed. This region is about 50 miles (80 km) south of Atlanta and about 35 miles (56 km) north of Macon.
The Yellow River is a 76-mile-long (122 km) tributary of the Ocmulgee River in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Big Indian Creek may refer to:
Limestone Creek is a tributary of the Tennessee River in Tennessee and Alabama.
Big Indian Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is a tributary to the Ocmulgee River.
Walnut Creek is a 30-mile-long (48 km) tributary of the South River in the U.S. state of Georgia. It originates in the city of Hampton in Henry County and flows into South River, which is a branch of the Ocmulgee River.
Walnut Creek is a 25-mile-long (40 km) tributary of the Ocmulgee River in the U.S. state of Georgia. It originates in the city of Gray in Jones County and flows into the Ocmulgee River in Macon at the southern corner of Ocmulgee National Monument.
Rum Creek may refer to:
Savage Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is a tributary to the Ocmulgee River.
Sugar Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. A tributary of the Ocmulgee River, it runs through Wheeler County, Georgia, Telfair County, Georgia, and Dodge County, Georgia until it meets the Alligator Creek, approximately two miles north of Lumber City, Georgia. Alligator Creek then meets the Ocmulgee River several miles further south. Georgia State Route 87 and Georgia State Route 117 intersect and cross over Sugar Creek just before entering the city limits of Eastman, Georgia, which Sugar Creek passes on the southwest. It also runs along the southwest border of the city of Chauncey and passes through the southwest border of the city of McRae–Helena. A 1911 survey of the area reported:
The Little Ocmulgee River drains the upper part of the county chiefly by way of its tributaries, the most important of which is Sugar Creek whose watershed exclusive of Turnpike Creek contains 47.6 square miles in this county and 49.2 square miles in Dodge. Turnpike Creek is a branch of Sugar Creek and has a watershed containing 59.2 square miles in Telfair County and 18.0 square miles in Dodge. The stream channels in this watershed are the worst in the county. Assuming a uniform fall in Gum Swamp, the fall in Sugar Creek between McRae and Gum Swamp is 04.7 feet. The distance is 17.5 miles, making a fall of 5.41 feet per mile.
References
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rum Creek (Ocmulgee River tributary)
- 1 2 Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 194. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.