title: Stewarts Creek (Richardson Creek tributary)
text: # Stewarts Creek (Richardson Creek tributary)
  
  Stewarts Creek is a 11.55 mi (18.59 km) long 3rd order tributary to Richardson Creek in Union County, North Carolina.
  
  ## Course
  
  Stewarts Creek rises about 3 miles northwest of Monroe, North Carolina and then flows southeast and curves northeast to join Richardson Creek about 0.25 miles downstream of the Lake Twitty Dam.
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Stewarts Creek drains 35.36 square miles (91.6 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 48.4 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 452.64, and is about 28% forested.
  
  