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Hewletts Creek

Hewletts Creek is a stream in New Hanover County, North Carolina, in the United States. It is the only stream of its name in the United States.

Hewletts Creek was named for a family of settlers.

Variant names

According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as:

  • Hewlet Creek
  • Hewlets Creek

Course

Hewletts Creek rises on the Cape Fear River divide in Pine Valley Country Club of Wilmington, North Carolina and then flows east and southeast to the Intracoastal Waterway in Masonboro, North Carolina.

Watershed

Hewletts Creek drains 11.08 square miles (28.7 km) of area, receives about 57.9 in/year of precipitation, and has a wetness index of 586.63 and is about 11% forested.


See also

References

  1. ^ "GNIS Detail - Hewletts Creek". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Hewletts Creek Topo Map in New Hanover". TopoZone. Locality, LLC. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  3. ^ "ArcGIS Web Application". epa.maps.arcgis.com. US EPA. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  4. ^ "Hewletts Creek Watershed Report". US EPA Geoviewer. US EPA. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  5. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hewletts Creek
  6. ^ Fennell, Bettie (Aug 7, 1989). "A master of the auctioneer's art". Star-News. pp. A1. Retrieved 23 May 2015.


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