title: Browns Creek (Cape Fear River tributary)
text: # Browns Creek (Cape Fear River tributary)
  
  Browns Creek is a 27.78 mi (44.71 km) long 2nd order tributary to the Cape Fear River in Bladen County, North Carolina.
  
  ## Course
  
  Browns Creek rises in Sheriff White Pond, a Carolina Bay, about 1 mile southeast of Dublin, North Carolina. Browns Creek then flows southeast and east through the south side of Elizabethtown to join the Cape Fear River about 1.5 miles east of Elizabethtown, North Carolina.
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Browns Creek drains 18.79 square miles (48.7 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 49.2 in/year of precipitation, has a wetness index of 561.30 and is about 21% forested.
  
  