Troublesome Creek Tributary to Haw River | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | North Carolina |
County |
Rockingham Guilford |
City | Stokesdale |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | divide between Troublesome Creek and Belews Creek |
• location | Stokesdale, North Carolina |
• coordinates | 36°14′49″N 079°59′37″W / 36.24694°N 79.99361°W [1] |
• elevation | 960 ft (290 m) [2] |
Mouth | Haw River |
• location | about 5 miles south of Reidsville, North Carolina |
• coordinates | 36°15′57″N 079°38′35″W / 36.26583°N 79.64306°W [1] |
• elevation | 653 ft (199 m) [2] |
Length | 23.67 mi (38.09 km) [3] |
Basin size | 55.96 square miles (144.9 km2) [4] |
Discharge | |
• location | Haw River |
• average | 65.59 cu ft/s (1.857 m3/s) at mouth with Haw River [4] |
Basin features | |
Progression | Haw River → Cape Fear River → Atlantic Ocean |
River system | Haw River |
Tributaries | |
• left | unnamed tributaries |
• right | unnamed tributaries |
Waterbodies | Lake Reidsville |
Bridges | NC 68, US 220, Price Mill Road, Haynes Road, Hudson Road, Witty Road, Woolen Store Road, Monroeton Road, US 158, McCoy Road, US 29 Business, US 29 |
Troublesome Creek is a 23.67 mi (38.09 km) long 3rd order tributary to the Haw River, in Rockingham County, North Carolina.
According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as: [1]
Troublesome Creek was the location of Native American activity (Cheraw Indians) [5] in the Middle Archaic period and may have been the location of the first European settlement in Rockingham County, North Carolina. [6] The watershed was the site of the Troublesome Creek Iron Works, also known as Speedwell Furnace. Established in 1770, it is considered one of the earliest colonial ironworks. [7] General Nathaniel Greene also camped here during the Guilford Courthouse campaign in 1781. [8] President George Washington also later visited the ironworks in 1791. [8]
Troublesome Creek rises in the City of Stokesdale in Guilford County on the divide between Troublesome Creek and Belews Creek ( Dan River). Troublesome Creek then flows northeast into Rockingham County and then southeast to meet the Haw River about 5 miles south of Reidsville, North Carolina. [2] Lake Reidsville is an impoundment of this stream.
Troublesome Creek drains 55.96 square miles (144.9 km2) of area, receives about 46.5 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 426.23 and is about 42% forested. [4]
The Rockingham County Natural Heritage Inventory [9] recognized three locations in the Troublesome Creek watershed, all of which are county significant. These include 1) Bottomlands of Troublesome Creek, 2) Troublesome Creek Marsh, and 3) Warf Airfield Marsh.