Broad Mouth Branch | |
Name Other: | Tributary to Deep River |
Map Size: | 300 |
Pushpin Map: | USA North Carolina#USA |
Pushpin Map Size: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Broad Mouth Branch mouth |
Pushpin Map Alt: | Map of Broad Mouth Branch mouth location |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | United States |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | North Carolina |
Subdivision Type3: | County |
Subdivision Name3: | Randolph |
Length: | 2.69miles[1] |
Discharge1 Location: | Deep River |
Discharge1 Avg: | 2.8cuft/s at mouth with Deep River[2] |
Source1: | Back Branch divide |
Source1 Location: | Pond about 2.5 miles northeast of Coleridge, North Carolina |
Source1 Coordinates: | 35.6756°N -79.5947°W[3] |
Source1 Elevation: | 605feet[4] |
Mouth: | Deep River |
Mouth Location: | about 1.5 miles north of Coleridge, North Carolina |
Mouth Coordinates: | 35.6647°N -79.6225°W |
Mouth Elevation: | 399feet |
Progression: | Rocky River → Deep River → Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean |
River System: | Deep River |
Tributaries Left: | unnamed tributaries |
Tributaries Right: | unnamed tributaries |
Bridges: | Troy Caverness Road, NC 22 |
Broad Mouth Branch is a 2.69miles long 1st order tributary to the Deep River in Randolph, North Carolina. This is the only stream with this name in the United States according to the US Geological Survey.
Broad Mouth Branch rises in a pond on the Back Branch divide about 2.5 miles northeast of Coleridge, North Carolina in Randolph County, North Carolina and then flows southwesterly to join the Deep River about 1 mile north of Coleridge, North Carolina.[4]
Broad Mouth Branch drains of area, receives about 47.3 in/year of precipitation, and has a wetness index of 383.09 and is about 50% forested.[2]