title: Wicker Branch (Lanes Creek tributary)
text: # Wicker Branch (Lanes Creek tributary)
  
  Wicker Branch is a 5.22 mi (8.40 km) long 3rd order tributary to Lanes Creek in Union County, North Carolina.
  
  ## Course
  
  Wicker Branch rises in a pond about 5 miles east-northeast of Alton, North Carolina. Wicker Branch then flows southeast to meet Lanes Creek about 6 miles south of Allens Crossroads, North Carolina.
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Wicker Branch drains 9.36 square miles (24.2 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 48.4 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 434.25 and is about 38% forested.
  
  