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The Chestatee River (variant spellings Chestatie, Chestetee, Chostatee, Chosteta,Chestotee[1] none in modern use) is a 32.76-mile-long (52.72 km)[2] river in the Appalachian Mountains of northern Georgia, USA.
The word "Chestatee" is a Cherokee word meaning roughly "pine torch place" or "place of lights", because they would use bonfires along the riverbanks to light their torches. They would then use these torches for hunting deer and other wild game in the forest. The Chestatee Regional Library System takes its name from the river, as do Chestatee High School and Middle School in Gainesville. In a nod to the origins of the name, CHS strives to be "a place of light" to their students.
Course[edit]
It begins at the confluence of Dicks Creek and Frogtown Creek (near the junction of U.S. 19 and U.S. 129) in northeastern Lumpkin County, flowing down by the county seat and former Georgia Gold Rush town of Dahlonega, and then under the northern terminus of the Georgia 400 expressway from Atlanta. It originally continued past the southern corner of the county, forming the entire eastern border of southern Dawson County with northwestern Hall County, and the far northern part of Forsyth's border with Hall. The river was used as a defining line in the Cherokee Treaty of Washington 1819[3] 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. The northwestern arm of the lake, which flooded the lower 18 miles (29 km) of the river,[2] is called Chestatee Bay, which destroyed the town of Chestatee (called Atsunsta Ti Yi by the native Cherokee people) when it was submerged. The county boundaries still follow the original thalwegs of the river, with the lake coming as far up the river as Lumpkin's southernmost tip. At this point, the river forms an extremely small portion of the Lumpkin/Hall county line for about 1 mile (1.6 km).
Watershed and sub-watershed details[edit]
The Lake Lanier drainage basin area consists of the HUC-10 watershed 0313000108, as designated by the United States Geological Survey, which in turn contains 6 sub-watersheds, listed below.
In addition, the Lower Chestatee River basin, HUC 0313000107, which forms the Chestatee River arm of the lake in the northwest, and the Chattahoochee River watershed 0313000103, which forms the Chattahoochee River arm of the lake in the northeast, are all part of the Lake Lanier water resource region.
HUC-10 0313000108
| Sub-watershed HUC | Sub-watershed Name[4] | Sub-Basin Description[4] | Sub-watershed Location[4] | Sub-watershed Size (mi2)[2] | Sub-Basin Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 031300010801 | Upper Lake Sidney Lanier | Upper Lake Lanier and its tributaries and branches, namely Ada Creek and Sardis Creek. | Located in Forsyth County and Hall County. | 34 |  |
| 031300010502 | Upper Tesnatee Creek | Upper Tesnatee Creek and its tributaries and branches, namely Cathey Creek, Tom White Branch, Ledford Branch, Turner Creek, Thurmond Creek, and Cox Creek. | Located entirely in White County. | 28 |  |
| 031300010503 | Town Creek | Town Creek and its tributaries and branches, namely White Creek, Jenny Creek, and Glade Branch. | Located entirely in White County. | 26 |  |
| 031300010504 | Lower Tesnatee Creek | Lower Tesnatee Creek and its tributaries and branches, namely Chateen Creek and Shoal Creek. | Located in White County and Lumpkin County. | 18 | |
| 031300010505 | Tate Creek-Chestatee River | Tate Creek and its tributaries and branches, namely Moose Creek, Pruitt Creek, and Mill Creek. | Located entirely in Lumpkin County. | 31 |  |
Hydrology[edit]
There is one stream gauge (NWS location identifier DGAG) along the river, installed in 1907 at State Route 52 near Dahlonega. It is at latitude 34°31'41"N, longitude 83°56'23"W, at 1,128.6 feet (344.0 m) above mean sea level. The watershed area above this point is 153 square miles (400 km2). The National Weather Service has set a flood stage for this gauge of 19 feet (5.8 m). The highest level ever recorded was in 1967, at 25.17 feet (7.67 m) on August 23. This is about ten times its average height or depth.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=XG8wAQAAMAAJ
- ^ a b c "National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)" (file geodatabase (GDB) at ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/Hydro/FileGDB101/). United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
{{cite web}}: External link in|format= - ^ http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/washing5.htm
- ^ a b c "EPA MyWaters Mapper". Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
External links[edit]
34°31′41″N 83°56′23″W / 34.52806°N 83.93972°W
2Chestatee Category:Chattahoochee River Category:Landforms of Dawson County, Georgia Category:Landforms of Forsyth County, Georgia Category:Landforms of Hall County, Georgia Category:Landforms of Lumpkin County, Georgia Category:Rivers of Georgia (U.S. state)