title: Wheeling Branch
text: # Wheeling Branch
  
  Wheeling Branch is a 2.45 mi (3.94 km) long 1st order tributary to Tussocky Branch in Sussex County, Delaware. This is the only stream of this name in the United States.
  
  ## Course
  
  Wheeling Branch rises about 1 mile southeast of Ralphs, Delaware and then flows north-northwest into Tussocky Branch about 0.5 miles east of Ralphs, Delaware.
  
  ## Watershed
  
  Wheeling Branch drains 1.32 square miles (3.4 $km^2)$ of area, receives about 44.8 in/year of precipitation, has a topographic wetness index of 1,092.57 and is about 11% forested.
  
  