title: Oldfield Creek (Ararat River tributary)
text: # Oldfield Creek (Ararat River tributary)
  
  Oldfield Creek is a 2.98 mi (4.80 km) long 2nd order tributary to the Ararat River in Surry County, North Carolina.
  
  ## Course
  
  Oldfield Creek rises in a pond on the divide of an unnamed tributary to the Ararat River about 2 miles northeast of Black Water, North Carolina. Oldfield Creek then flows east-northeast to join the Ararat River about 1.5 miles northwest of Ararat, North Carolina.
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Oldfield Creek drains 2.31 square miles (6.0 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 47.7 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 341.49, and is about 45% forested.
  
  