Sandom Branch
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| Sandom Branch Tributary to Blackbird Creek | |
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| File:Floodplain of Sandom Branch downstream of DE 1.jpg Floodplain of Sandom Branch downstream of DE 1 in 2008 | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Delaware |
| County | New Castle |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | divide between Sandom Branch and Duck Creek |
| • location | about 2 miles south of Blackbird, Delaware[2] |
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| • elevation | 50 ft (15 m)[2] |
| Mouth | Blackbird Creek |
• location | Blackbird, Delaware[2] |
• coordinates | Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).[1] |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m)[2] |
| Length | 2.33 mi (3.75 km)[3] |
| Basin size | 2.78 square miles (7.2 km2)[3] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Blackbird Creek |
| • average | 3.28 cu ft/s (0.093 m3/s) at mouth with Blackbird Creek[3] |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Blackbird Creek → Delaware Bay → Atlantic Ocean |
| River system | Blackbird Creek |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | unnamed tributaries |
| • right | unnamed tributaries |
Sandom Branch is a 2.33 mi (3.75 km) long tributary to Blackbird Creek in New Castle County, Delaware. Sandom Branch is one of the major tributaries to Blackbird Creek above tidal influence.
Course
[edit | edit source]Sandom Branch rises on the Duck Creek divide about 2 miles south of Blackbird, Delaware.[2]
Watershed
[edit | edit source]Sandom Branch drains 2.78 square miles (7.2 km2) of area, receives about 43.8 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 556.57 and is about 22.6% forested.[3]
See also
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References
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