Broad River (Carolinas)

Broad River (Carolinas)

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tributary_left = Little River
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map_caption = Map of the Santee River watershed showing the Broad River.

:"For other rivers with the same name, see Broad River."The Broad River is a principal tributary of the Congaree River, about 150 miles (240 km) long, [ Houghton Mifflin Company (1997). "The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Geography". Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-395-86448-8 ] in western North Carolina and northern South Carolina in the United States. Via the Congaree, it is part of the watershed of the Santee River, which flows to the Atlantic Ocean. DeLorme (1998). "South Carolina Atlas & Gazetteer". Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-237-4 ]

Course

The Broad River originates in the Blue Ridge Mountains of eastern Buncombe County, North Carolina [ [http://reference.allrefer.com/gazetteer/B/B10503-broad-river.html Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry for Broad River] ] and flows generally south-southeastwardly, through or along the boundaries of Rutherford, Polk and Cleveland Counties in North Carolina DeLorme (2001). "North Carolina Atlas & Gazetteer". Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-277-3 ] ; and Cherokee, York, Union, Chester, Fairfield, Newberry and Richland Counties in South Carolina. In North Carolina , the river is dammed to form Lake Lure; in South Carolina it passes through the Sumter National Forest and the communities of Cherokee Falls and Lockhart before joining the Saluda River to form the Congaree River in the city of Columbia.

Principal tributaries of the Broad River include the Green, Second Broad and First Broad Rivers in North Carolina ; and the Bowens, Pacolet, Sandy, Tyger, Enoree and Little Rivers in South Carolina.

Dams

This is an incomplete list of dams starting at Lake Lure and moving downstream

North Carolina
*Lake Lure
*Cliffside Steam Station (Duke Energy) on the Border of Rutherford and Cleveland Counties.South Carolina
*Gaston Shoals Dam (Gaffney)
*Cherokee Falls
*Ninety Nine Islands Dam adjacent to the abandoned Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant
*Dam and canal at Lockhart
*Neal Shoals Dam
*Parr Shoals Dam forming Parr Reservoir
*Columbia Canal and Dam in Columbia

Crossings

The Broad River is crossed several times by many highways (Note: this list may at times be incomplete)North Carolina
*U.S. 74
*Big Island Bridge
*McKinney Bridge
*U.S. 221
*U.S. 221A
*Gaffney RoadSouth Carolina
*Gaffney/Cherokee County
**Shelby Highway (S.C. 18)
**Interstate 85
**Cherokee Avenue U.S. 29
**Hickory Grove Road (S.C. 211)
*Chester and Union Counties
**Pinkney Road (S.C. 9/49) in Lockhart, South Carolina
**(S.C. 72) in Carlisle, South Carolina
*Fairfield and Newberry Counties
**Newberry Road (S.C. 34)
**Parr Road (S.C. 213) in Peak, South Carolina
*Columbia
**Interstate 20
**River Drive
**Interstate 126

Variant names

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Broad River has also been known as [ Gnis|1251826|Broad River ]
*Eswa Huppeday
*Eswaspuddenah
*Line River
*Main Broad River
*Eswan Happedaw

It was also known in colonial times as the English Broad River to distinguish it from the French Broad River which also originates in western North Carolina, but flows northwest into what was then part of the claimed territory of New France.

ee also

*French Broad River
*List of North Carolina rivers
*List of South Carolina rivers

References


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