North Branch Dead River

North Branch Dead River
Origin	Maine
Mouth	Flagstaff Lake 45°09′48″N 70°26′18″W / 45.1632°N 70.4382°W / 45.1632; -70.4382 (North Branch Dead River)Coordinates: 45°09′48″N 70°26′18″W / 45.1632°N 70.4382°W / 45.1632; -70.4382 (North Branch Dead River)
Progression	Flagstaff Lake – Dead River – Kennebec River
Basin countries	United States
Length	19 miles (31 km)
Source elevation	1,275 feet (390 m)
Mouth elevation	1,145 feet (350 m)

The North Branch Dead River is a 19.3-mile-long (31.1 km)^[1] tributary of the Dead River in Franklin County, Maine. It is paralleled by Maine State Route 27.

From the outflow of Lower Pond (45°18′49″N 70°37′32″W / 45.3135°N 70.6256°W / 45.3135; -70.6256 (North Branch Dead River source)) in Chain of Ponds (Maine Township 2, Range 6, WBKP), the river runs southeast to Eustis, where its confluence with the South Branch of the Dead River was drowned by the impoundment of Flagstaff Lake in 1950.

The Dead River played a role in the American Revolution. In the fall of 1775 then newly-commissioned Colonel Benedict Arnold led a force of over 1000 men on a grueling trip through Maine, as part of the invasion of Canada. Ascending the Kennebec in bateaux, they portaged around the rapids of the lower Dead River, and proceeded up the North Branch, through the Chain of Ponds to Arnold Pond in Coburn Gore (T.2/3 R.6 WBKP), and across the height of land to Quebec's Chaudière River.

See also

• List of rivers of Maine

References

1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 30, 2011

• "North Branch Dead River". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. 30 September 1980. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:572270. Retrieved 2010-12-07. 
• Maine Streamflow Data from the USGS
• Maine Watershed Data From Environmental Protection Agency