title: Tumbling Shoals Creek
text: # Tumbling Shoals Creek
  
  Tumbling Shoals Creek is a 3.52 mi (5.66 km) long 1st order tributary to the Reddies River in Wilkes County, North Carolina. This is the only stream of this name in the United States.
  
  ## Course
  
  Tumbling Shoals Creek rises about 3 miles southwest of Halls Mills, North Carolina and then flows south-southwest to join the Reddies River at about 3 miles southeast of Wilbar, North Carolina.
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Tumbling Shoals Creek drains 3.30 square miles (8.5 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 50.5 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 253.51, and is about 88% forested.
  
  