Tompkins Branch
Stream in Virginia, USA
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Tompkins Branch is a 1.61 mi (2.59 km) long 1st order tributary to the Pudding Creek in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. This is the only stream of this name in the United States.[1]
| Tompkins Branch Tributary to Pudding Creek | |
|---|---|
  Location of Tompkins Branch mouth  Tompkins Branch (the United States) | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| County | Pittsylvania |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Morris Branch divide |
| • location | pond about 2 miles northeast of Woods Store, Virginia |
| • coordinates | 36°45′00″N 079°30′20″W[1] |
| • elevation | 820 ft (250 m)[2] |
| Mouth | |
• location | about 0.5 miles northwest of Hopewell, Virginia |
• coordinates | 36°45′14″N 079°28′54″W[1] |
• elevation | 675 ft (206 m)[3] |
| Length | 1.61 mi (2.59 km)[4] |
| Basin size | 0.88 square miles (2.3 km2)[5] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Pudding Creek |
| • average | 1.28 cu ft/s (0.036 m3/s) at mouth with Pudding Creek[5] |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Pudding Creek → Banister River → Dan River → Roanoke River → Albemarle Sound → Pamlico Sound → Atlantic Ocean |
| River system | Roanoke River |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | unnamed tributaries |
| • right | unnamed tributaries |
| Bridges | Maurakis Road, Irish Road |
Course
Tompkins Branch rises in a pond about 2 miles northeast of Woods Store, Virginia, and then flows generally east to join Pudding Creek about 0.5 miles northwest of Hopewell.[3]
Watershed
Tompkins Branch drains 0.88 square miles (2.3 km2) of area, receives about 45.9 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 446.94, and is about 40% forested.[5]
