Pigeon House Branch (Crabtree Creek tributary)


Pigeon House Branch is a long tributary to Crabtree Creek in Wake County, North Carolina and is classed as a 2nd order stream on the EPA waters geoviewer site.

Course

Pigeon House Branch rises in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina then flows northeast to meet Crabtree Creek just upstream of Bridges Branch. It is one of the more developed tributaries with less than 1% of the watershed considered to be forested.

Watershed

Pigeon House Branch drains of area that is underlaid by Raleigh Gneiss geology. The watershed receives an average of 46.7 in/year of precipitation and has a wetness index of 433.76.