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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 .
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.
USGS Geographic Names Information System; USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Georgia (1974) Graham, Paul K. (2010). Atlas of East and Coastal Georgia Watercourses and Militia Districts. The Genealogy Company. ISBN 0-9755312-3-9.
In 2015, the USGS unveiled the topoView website, a new way to view their entire digitized collection of over 178,000 maps from 1884 to 2006. The site is an interactive map of the United States that allows users to search or move around the map to find the USGS collection of maps for a specific area.
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
Since the Sea Level Datum of 1929 was a hybrid model, it was not a pure model of mean sea level, the geoid, or any other equipotential surface. Therefore, it was renamed the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) May 10, 1973, by the National Geodetic Survey , a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .
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 ...
The river daylights just north of Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in the city of East Point, Georgia. [4] It proceeds to flow in a southeasterly direction through suburbs of Atlanta, eventually flowing into Jackson Lake. The mean flow on the river is 1380cfs, with a mean gauge height of 7.86 feet (2.40 m). [5]