Three Creek

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Three Creek
Tributary to Nottoway River
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Location
CountryUnited States
StateVirginia
CountyGreensville
Southampton
Sussex
CityEmporia
Physical characteristics
SourceConfluence of Tryall Creek and Cooks Branch
 ⁃ locationabout 2 miles north of Pleasant Shade, Virginia
 ⁃ coordinates 36°47′16″N077°38′13″W / 36.78778°N 77.63694°W / 36.78778; -77.63694 [1]
 ⁃ elevationabout 168 feet
Mouth confluence with the Nottoway River
 ⁃ location
about 1/2 mile west of Sebrell, Virginia
 ⁃ coordinates
 36°46′53″N077°09′50″W / 36.78139°N 77.16389°W / 36.78139; -77.16389 [2]
 ⁃ elevation
about 15 feet amsl
Length75.4 km/46.9 miles [3]
Basin features
Progressionroughly east
River system Nottoway River
Tributaries 
 ⁃ leftCooks Branch
Reedy Branch
Cattail Creek
Uriah Branch
Browns Branch
Chatman Branch
Applewhite Swamp
Smith Swamp
Poplar Swamp
Hornet Swamp
 ⁃ rightTryall Creek
Maclins Creek
Nicholson Creek
Angelico Creek
WaterbodiesSlagles Lake
BridgesGreensville County Routes 605, 613, 619, 610, 617, I-95, US 301, Greensville County Route 616, Sussex County Route 611, Southampton County Routes 615, 659, 308, 609 (Crichton Bridge)

Three Creek is a nearly 47 mile (75.4 km) long tributary of the Nottoway River in southeastern Virginia in the United States.

Nottoway River river in the United States of America

The Nottoway River is in southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. It is part of the Chowan River system, which flows into Albemarle Sound in North Carolina.

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Course

Three Creek is formed at the confluence of Tryall Creek and Cooks Branch in Greensville County, Virginia. From the confluence, the creek flows east then south into Slagles Lake. After Slagles Lake it flows further south for about a mile and then flows roughly southeast and then northeast through swampland towards the Nottoway River. Three Creek forms the county boundary between Greensville and Sussex Counties for part of its course.

Greensville County, Virginia County in the United States

Greensville County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,243. Its county seat is Emporia.

Sources

Tryall Creek rises from about 290 feet amsl near Pleasant Grove Church and flows northeast to meet Cooks Branch. Cooks Branch rises near Smoky Ordinary at about 315 feet amsl and flows east then south to meet with Tryall Creek. Cooks Branch has one tributary called Kettlestick Branch that comes in on the left. [4]

Watershed

Three Creek drains a mostly forested watershed and contains a lot of swampland towards the Nottoway River. Agriculture makes a large amount of the rest of the area. [5]

River Modifications

Three Creek has one impoundment, Slagles Lake along its course. A number of the tributaries have their own impoundments.

Geology

The confluence of Tryall Creek and Cooks Branch is in the Piedmont of Virginia in mafic and felsic metavolcanic rocks. Both tributaries arise in granite (Tryall Creek) or granite gneiss (Cooks Branch). Three Creek flows into the Coastal Plain in the Bacon Castle Formation and then for most of its length, especially the swampy areas it is in alluvium. [6]

Piedmont (United States) plateau region located in the eastern United States

The Piedmont is a plateau region located in the Eastern United States. It sits between the Atlantic coastal plain and the main Appalachian Mountains, stretching from New York in the north to central Alabama in the south. The Piedmont Province is a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division which consists of the Gettysburg-Newark Lowlands, the Piedmont Upland and the Piedmont Lowlands sections.

Granite A common type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock with granular structure

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture. Granites can be predominantly white, pink, or gray in color, depending on their mineralogy. The word "granite" comes from the Latin granum, a grain, in reference to the coarse-grained structure of such a holocrystalline rock. Strictly speaking, granite is an igneous rock with between 20% and 60% quartz by volume, and at least 35% of the total feldspar consisting of alkali feldspar, although commonly the term "granite" is used to refer to a wider range of coarse-grained igneous rocks containing quartz and feldspar.

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References

  1. ↑ "GNIS Detail - Three Creek". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "GNIS Detail - Three Creek". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  3. ↑ "ArcGIS Web Application". epa.maps.arcgis.com. US EPA. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  4. ↑ "Butterwood Lake Topo Map, Nottoway County VA (Blackstone East Area)". TopoZone. Locality, LLC. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  5. ↑ "THREE CREEK, MILL SWAMP, AND DARDEN MILL RUN WATERSHEDS TMDL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TECHNICAL REPORT" (PDF). Virginia Dept. of Environmental Quality. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  6. ↑ "ArcGIS Web Application". www.dmme.virginia.gov. Virginia Division of Geology and Mineral Resources. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
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