Poplar Branch Tributary to Mill Creek | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Virginia |
County | Pittsylvania |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Mill Creek divide |
• location | about 1.5 miles south-southwest of Gretna Rolling Mill, Virginia |
• coordinates | 36°52′52″N 079°21′47″W / 36.88111°N 79.36306°W [1] |
• elevation | 700 ft (210 m) [2] |
Mouth | |
• location | about 1.5 miles southeast of Gretna Rolling Mill, Virginia |
• coordinates | 36°52′49″N 079°20′00″W / 36.88028°N 79.33333°W [1] |
• elevation | 598 ft (182 m) [3] |
Length | 0.85 mi (1.37 km) [4] |
Basin size | 1.02 square miles (2.6 km2) [5] |
Discharge | |
• location | Mill Creek |
• average | 1.48 cu ft/s (0.042 m3/s) at mouth with Mill Creek [5] |
Basin features | |
Progression | Mill Creek → Whitethorn Creek → Banister River → Dan River → Roanoke River → Albemarle Sound → Pamlico Sound → Atlantic Ocean |
River system | Roanoke River |
Tributaries | |
• left | unnamed tributaries |
• right | unnamed tributaries |
Bridges | none |
Poplar Branch is a 0.85 mi (1.37 km) long 1st order tributary to Mill Creek in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
Poplar Branch rises about 1.5 miles south-southwest of Gretna Rolling Mill, Virginia and then flows generally east to join Mill Creek about 1.5 miles southeast of Gretna Rolling Mill. [3]
Poplar Branch drains 0.85 square miles (2.2 km2) of area, receives about 45.6 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 410.64, and is about 49% forested. [5]