Broad River (Carolinas)

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For another river with the same name, see Broad River (disambiguation).

The Broad River is the main tributary of Congaree River, about 150 miles (240 km) long, in western North Carolina and northern Carolina in the United States. Via Congaree, it is part of the Santee River Basin, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Course Edit

The River Luas originates from the Blue Ridge Mountains east of Buncombe County, North Carolina and flows generally to south-southeast, through or along the borders of Rutherford, Polk and Cleveland Counties in North Carolina; 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 through the Sumter National Forest and Cherokee Falls and Lockhart communities before joining the Saluda River to form Congaree River in Columbia city.

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

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Dune Edit

This is a list of incomplete dams that start at Lake Lure and move downstream

North Carolina

• Lake Lure
• The Riverfront (Duke Energy) Steam Station on the Rutherford Border and Cleveland County.

South Carolina

• Gaston Shoals Dam (Gaffney)
• Cherokee Falls
• Nine Nine Islands Dam adjacent to abandoned Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant
• Dams and canals in Lockhart
• Neal Shoals Dam
• Parr Shoals Dam forms Parr Reservoir
• The Columbia Canal and Dam in Columbia

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Crossover Edit

River Luas crossed several times by many highways (Note: this list may sometimes be incomplete)

North Carolina

• Rutherford County
  • 
    US $ 64 / US $ 74 Alt.
  • NCÂ 108 (Tryon Road)
  • Grays Road
  • Jalan Union
  • US $ 74
  • Poors Ford Road
  • Big Island Road
  • Jalan Jack McKinney
  • USÂ 221
  • 
    USÂ 221 Alt.
• Cleveland County
  • NCÂ 150 (Gaffney Road)

South Carolina

• Gaffney/Cherokee County
  • SCÃ,18 (Shelby Highway)
  • I-85
  • USÃ, 29 (Cherokee Avenue)
  • SCÃ, 211 (Hickory Grove Road)
• Chester and Union Counties
  • SCÃ,9 / SCÃ, 49 (Pinkney Road) in Lockhart
  • SCÃ, 72 / SCÃ, 215 in Carlisle
• Fairfield and Newberry County
  • SCÃ, 34 (Newberry Road)
  • SCÃ, 213 (Parr Street) at the Peak
• Columbia
  • I-20
  • US $ 176 (Broad River Road)
  • I-126

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Variant name Edit

According to the Geographic Name Information System, the River Area has also been known as

• Eswa Huppeday
• Eswawpuddenah
• River Path
• Main Main River
• Eswan Happedaw

It was also known in colonial times as the Broad River of England to distinguish it from the French River Basin which also originated in western North Carolina, but flowed northwest into the territory which later became part of the territory claimed in New France.

The present name is a descriptive width of the river.

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See also Edit

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

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References Edit

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