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The North Newport River is a 26-mile-long (42 km) [1] tidal river in Liberty County in the U.S. state of Georgia.It rises just west of Interstate 95, 15 miles (24 km) south of Richmond Hill, and flows generally east-southeast to its mouth at the Medway River and St. Catherines Sound on the Atlantic Ocean.
North Newport River; South Newport River; Sapelo River. Broro River; Mud River. Crescent River; ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Georgia (1974) Graham, Paul K ...
The South Newport River is a 42.6-mile-long (68.6 km) [1] river on the Atlantic coastal plain in the U.S. state of Georgia.It rises in Long County 3 miles (5 km) south of Walthourville and flows east-southeast, becoming the boundary between Liberty and McIntosh counties.
Each subregion includes the area drained by a river system, a reach of a river and its tributaries in that reach, a closed basin or basins, or a group of streams forming a coastal drainage area. [6] Regions receive a two-digit code. The following levels are designated by the addition of another two digits. [7]
USGS Geographic Names Information Service; USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Virginia (1974) Salmon, Emily J.; Edward D. C. Campbell Jr., eds. (1994). The Hornbook of Virginia History (4th ed.). Richmond, VA: Virginia Office of Graphic Communications. ISBN 0-88490-177-7
The area was once part of the New River drainage, making Johns Creek, Sinking Creek, and Craig Creek tributaries of the New River. However, as much as a million years ago, the James River, with a lower route to the ocean, eroded the hills and captured Johns Creek and Craig Creek. Sinking Creek, on a higher plateau, remained a tributary of the ...
It is a tributary of the Chattahoochee River, and near its end it is the centerpiece of Sweetwater Creek State Park. Sweetwater Creek was named after AmaKanasta (Sweet Water), a Cherokee chieftain. [2] Since 1904 there has been a stream gauge near Austell (actually in Lithia Springs), at latitude 33°46'22"N, longitude 84°36'53"W.
The river was used as a defining line in the Cherokee Treaty of Washington 1819 [4] and the eastern border of the Hickory Log District of the Cherokee Nation before removal [1] It is a major tributary of the Chattahoochee River , into which it ended at a point now under the waters of Lake Lanier , since Buford Dam was finished in 1956.