title: Pauls Creek (Stewarts Creek tributary)
text: # Pauls Creek (Stewarts Creek tributary)
  
  Pauls Creek is a 15.03 mi (24.19 km) long 3rd order tributary to Stewarts Creek in Surry County, North Carolina.
  
  ## Variant names
  
  According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as:
  
  * Garners Creek
  * Little Pauls Creek
  
  ## Course
  
  Pauls Creek rises at Fancy Gap, Virginia, in Carroll County and then flows south-southeast into Surry County, North Carolina to join Stewarts Creek about 1 mile west of Toast, North Carolina.
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Pauls Creek drains 28.62 square miles (74.1 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 50.4 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 318.13, and is about 65% forested.
  
  