Shorts Ditch
Appearance
Shorts Ditch Tributary to Deep Creek | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Delaware |
County | Sussex |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Gravelly Branch divide |
• location | about 2.5 miles southeast of Coverdale Crossroads, Delaware |
• coordinates | 38°41′59″N 075°29′54″W / 38.69972°N 75.49833°W[1] |
• elevation | 35 ft (11 m)[2] |
Mouth | Deep Creek |
• location | about 0.5 miles northeast of Old Furnace, Delaware |
• coordinates | 38°40′25″N 075°30′19″W / 38.67361°N 75.50528°W[1] |
• elevation | 20 ft (6.1 m)[3] |
Length | 2.14 mi (3.44 km)[4] |
Basin size | 2.53 square miles (6.6 km2)[5] |
Discharge | |
• location | Deep Creek |
• average | 3.08 cu ft/s (0.087 m3/s) at mouth with Deep Creek[5] |
Basin features | |
Progression | southwest[4] |
River system | Nanticoke River |
Tributaries | |
• left | unnamed tributaries |
• right | unnamed tributaries |
Bridges | Cokesbury Road |
Shorts Ditch is a 2.14 mi (3.44 km) long 1st order tributary to Deep Creek in Sussex County, Delaware. This is the only stream of this name in the United States.[1]
Course
[edit]Shorts Ditch rises on the Gravelly Branch divide 2.5 miles southeast of Coverdale Crossroads, and then flows southwest to join Deep Creek about 0.5 miles northeast of Old Furnace.[3]
Watershed
[edit]Shorts Ditch drains 2.53 square miles (6.6 km2) of area, receives about 45.1 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 738.93, and is about 22% forested.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "GNIS Detail - Shorts Ditch". geonames.usgs.gov. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ "Get Maps". USGS Topoview. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ a b "Get Maps". USGS Topoview. US Geological Survey. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ a b "ArcGIS Web Application". epa.maps.arcgis.com. US EPA. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- ^ a b c "Shorts Ditch Watershed Report". US EPA Geoviewer. US EPA. Retrieved 21 May 2021.