title: Wide Mouth Branch
text: # Wide Mouth Branch
  
  Wide Mouth Branch is a 4.41 mi (7.10 km) long 3rd order tributary to Lanes Creek in Anson County, North Carolina. This is the only stream of this name in the United States.
  
  ## Course
  
  Wide Mouth Branch rises in a pond on the northeast side of Marshville, North Carolina in Union County. Wide Mouth Branch then flows east-southeast into Anson County to meet Lanes Creek about 0.5 miles west of Peachland.
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Wide Mouth Branch drains 4.28 square miles (11.1 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 48.1 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 447.40 and is about 23% forested.
  
  