Flat Creek
Flat Creek (Virginia) is located in Virginia
Flat Creek (Virginia)
Location within Commonwealth of Virginia
Flat Creek (Virginia) is located in the United States
Flat Creek (Virginia)
Flat Creek (Virginia) (the United States)
Location
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationBurkeville, Virginia
 • elevation500 feet (150 m)[1]
Mouth 
 • location
Appomattox River
 • elevation
180 feet (55 m)
Length34.0 miles (54.7 km)
Basin features
GNIS ID1466649

Flat Creek is a 34.0-mile (54.7 km)[2] right-bank tributary of the Appomattox River in the U.S. state of Virginia. It rises just east of the town of Burkeville in Nottoway County and flows north into Amelia County, then northeast to join the Appomattox River just outside the village of Coverly 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Petersburg.

The name appears as "Flatt Creek" on some 19th-century sources.[3] Amelia Springs, located next to Flat Creek[4] 2 miles north of Jetersville, was a popular resort in pre-Civil War days, and the site of the Battle of Amelia Springs just days before the end of the war in April 1865. The year before, cavalry led by Union general August Kautz had conducted raids against the Richmond and Danville Railroad, and Confederate defenders clashed with Kautz's forces at the bridge over Flat Creek just north of Chula on May 14.[5]

Tributaries

Listed in order, beginning at mouth:

Name Bank County
Barkhouse Branch Right Amelia
Horsepen Branch Left Amelia
Nibbs Creek Right Amelia
Wildcat Branch Left Amelia
Walker Branch Left Amelia
Haw Branch Left Amelia
Horsepen Creek Left Amelia
Beaverpond Creek Right Amelia
Neal's Creek Left Amelia
Little Creek Left Amelia
Vaughn's Creek Right Amelia
Webster's Creek Left Amelia
Walnut Branch Left Amelia
Little Creek Right Amelia
Ellis Creek Left Nottoway

See also

References

  1. ↑ Burkeville Topo Map in Nottoway County VA, USGS topographic map quad for Crewe West, VA. TopoZone, Locality LLC. Retrieved December 19, 2021.
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 1, 2011
  3. ↑ Booker, William L. A map of Amelia County, Virginia. Philadelphia: R.L. Barnes, circa 1850. Library of Congress permalink=https://lccn.loc.gov/2014588019. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  4. ↑ Turner, W. R. "Amelia Sulphur Springs, Virginia", The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 4, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1940, pp. 492–96. Retrieved December 19, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Operations in SE. VA. and N.C.", The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Serial 68, Page 6, Chapter XLVIII. Retrieved December 19, 2021.
  • U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Flat Creek
  • USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Virginia (1974)
  • Salmon, Emily J.; Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr. (1994). The Hornbook of Virginia History (4th ed.). Richmond, VA: Virginia Office of Graphic Communications. ISBN 0-88490-177-7.37°23′31″N 77°52′23″W / 37.39182°N 77.87305°W / 37.39182; -77.87305


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