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Chestatee River

Coordinates: 34°31′41″N 83°56′23″W / 34.52806°N 83.93972°W

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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, US.

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.^[3] 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.

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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^[4] 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

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The Chestatee River basin area consists of three HUC-10 watersheds, namely 0313000105, 0313000106, and 0313000107, and 14 sub-watersheds, listed below.

HUC-10 0313000105

Sub-watershed HUC	Sub-watershed Name^[5]	Sub-Basin Description^[5]	Sub-watershed Location^[5]	Sub-watershed Size (mi²)^[2]	Sub-Basin Map
031300010501	Dicks Creek	Dicks Creek and its tributaries and branches, namely Frogtown Creek, Boggs Creek, Cowrock Creek, Columbia Creek, Pigeon Roost Creek, Miller Creek, Lance Creek, and Blood Mountain Creek.	Located entirely in Lumpkin County.	32	HUC031300010501
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	HUC031300010502
031300010503	Town Creek	Town Creek and its tributaries and branches, namely White Creek, Jenny Creek, and Glade Branch.	Located entirely in White County.	26	HUC031300010503
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	HUC031300010504
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	HUC031300010505

HUC-10 0313000106

Sub-watershed HUC	Sub-watershed Name^[5]	Sub-Basin Description^[5]	Sub-watershed Location^[5]	Sub-watershed Size (mi²)^[2]	Sub-Basin Map
031300010601	Cavenders Creek	Cavenders Creek and its tributaries and branches, namely Pecks Mill Creek.	Located entirely in Lumpkin County.	21	HUC031300010601
031300010602	Yahoola Creek	Yahoola Creek and its tributaries and branches, namely Bryant Creek, Lee Creek, Walden Creek, Robison Creek, Woody Creek, Walker Creek, Jarrard Creek, Ward Creek, and Tanyard Branch.	Located entirely in Lumpkin County.	34	HUC031300010602
031300010603	Cane Creek	Cane Creek and its tributaries and branches, namely Crooked Creek, Clay Creek, Scott Branch, Little Cane Creek, and Turninglathe Branch.	Located entirely in Lumpkin County.	27	HUC031300010603
031300010604	Long Branch	Long Branch and its tributaries and branches, namely Ralston Branch, Town Creek, and Bells Branch.	Located entirely in Lumpkin County.	15	HUC031300010604

HUC-10 0313000107

Sub-watershed HUC	Sub-watershed Name^[5]	Sub-Basin Description^[5]	Sub-watershed Location^[5]	Sub-watershed Size (mi²)^[2]	Sub-Basin Map
031300010701	Yellow Creek	Yellow Creek and its tributaries and branches, namely Little Yellow Creek, Split Oak Creek, and Cane Branch.	Located in Lumpkin County and Hall County.	21	HUC031300010701
031300010702	Thompson Creek	Thompson Creek and its tributaries and branches, namely Toto Creek.	Located in Dawson County and Hall County.	23	HUC031300010702
031300010703	Latham Creek	Latham Creek and its tributaries and branches.	Located entirely in Hall County.	11	HUC031300010703
031300010704	Taylor Creek	Taylor Creek and its tributaries and branches.	Located in Dawson County and Forsyth County.	10	HUC031300010704
031300010705	Martin Creek	Martin Creek and its tributaries and branches.	Located in Hall County and Forsyth County.	8	HUC031300010705

Hydrology

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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.

References

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^ ^a ^b Laws of the Cherokee Nation: Adopted by the Council at Various Periods : Printed for the Benefit of the Nation. Cherokee Advocate Office. 1852.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)". United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2015-12-22. file geodatabase (GDB) at ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/Hydro/FileGDB101/^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 42. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.
^ "History & Archaeology". New Georgia Encyclopedia.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "EPA MyWaters Mapper". Environmental Protection Agency. Archived from the original on 2017-09-27. Retrieved 2015-12-15.

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USGS real-time gauge at Dahlonega

v t e Significant waterways of Georgia
Larger rivers	Alapaha Alcovy Altamaha Apalachee Aucilla Broad Chattahoochee Chattooga (Coosa River) Chattooga (Tugaloo River) Canoochee Conasauga Coosa Etowah Flint Hiwassee Little (Oconee River) Little (Savannah River) Little (Withlacoochee River) Little Tallapoosa Little Tennessee Nottely Ochlockonee Ocmulgee Oconee Ogeechee River Ohoopee Satilla Savannah South (Ocmulgee River) St. Marys Suwannee Tallapoosa Toccoa/Ocoee Towaliga Withlacoochee Yellow
Lakes	Allatoona Banks Lake Blackshear Burton Carters Chatuge Chehaw George W. Andrews Goat Rock Harding Hartwell Jackson Lanier Nottely Oconee Oliver Rabun Richard B. Russell Seminole Sinclair Strom Thurmond Tugalo Walter F. George West Point
Smaller rivers	Alabaha Alapahoochee Black (Okefenokee Swamp) Cartecay Coleman Coosawattee Dog Ellijay Hudson Jacks Jerico Little (Etowah River) Little Ochlockonee Little Ogeechee (Hancock County) Little Satilla (Satilla River) Mulberry River New (Chattahoochee River) New (Withlacoochee River) Oostanaula Soque South Newport Tallulah Tugaloo Willacoochee
Tidal rivers	Bear Belfast Broro Brunswick Buffalo Bull Chestatee Crescent Crooked Cumberland Darien Duplin Frederica Halfmoon Hampton Herb Laurel View Little Ogechee (Chatham County) Little Satilla (Atlantic Ocean) Mackay Medway Mud North River (Darien River) North (St. Marys River) North Newport Odingsell Sapelo Shad Skidaway Sope Tivoli Turtle Vernon Wilmington
Creeks and streams	Alligator (Little Ocmulgee River) Big Satilla Brasstown Ebenezer Euchee Ichawaynochaway Kettle Kinchafoonee Little Satilla Muckalee Noonday Okapilco Peachtree Rocky Comfort Spring (Flint River) Suwannoochee Sweetwater (Chattahoochee River) Tobesofkee Toccoa Walnut (South River) Walnut (Ocmulgee River) Williamson Swamp
Canals	Augusta Canal Brunswick–Altamaha Canal Savannah–Ogeechee Canal Suwannee Canal
See also	Grand Bay Intracoastal Waterway Okefenokee Swamp List of Georgia rivers

34°31′41″N 83°56′23″W / 34.52806°N 83.93972°W / 34.52806; -83.93972

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