Pigeon House Branch (Crabtree Creek Tributary)
Pigeon House Branch is a 2.88 mi (4.63 km) long tributary to Crabtree Creek in Wake County, North Carolina and is classed as a 2nd order stream on the EPA waters geoviewer site.
Course
Pigeon House Branch rises in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina then flows northeast to meet Crabtree Creek just upstream of Bridges Branch. It is one of the more developed tributaries with less than 1% of the watershed considered to be forested.
Watershed
Pigeon House Branch drains 4.69 square miles (12.1 km) of area that is underlaid by Raleigh Gneiss geology. The watershed receives an average of 46.7 in/year of precipitation and has a wetness index of 433.76.
See also
References
- ^ "GNIS Detail - Pigeon House Branch". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
- ^ "ArcGIS Web Application". epa.maps.arcgis.com. US EPA. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
- ^ "Pigeon House Branch Watershed Report". Waters Geoviewer. US EPA. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
- ^ "Wake County Geologic Map". www.arcgis.com. North Carolina Geological Survey. Retrieved September 18, 2019.