The Chestatee River (variant spellings Chestatie, Chestetee, Chostatee, Chosteta, none in modern use) is a river in the Appalachian Mountains of northern Georgia. It begins at the confluence of Dicks Creek and Frogtown Creek (near the junction of U.S. 19 and U.S. 129) in northeastern Lumpkin County, flowing down by the county seat and former gold rush town of Dahlonega. It originally continued past the southern corner of the county, forming the entire eastern border of southern Dawson County with Hall County, and the far northern part of Forsyth County's border with Hall. It is a major tributary of the Chattahoochee River, which it ended into at a point which is now under the waters of Lake Lanier, since Buford Dam was built. The northwestern arm of the lake is called Chestatee Bay, which destroyed the town of Chestatee (called Atsunsta Ti Yi by the native Cherokee people) when it was submerged. The county boundaries still follow the original thalwegs of the river, with the lake coming as far up the river as Lumpkin's southernmost tip. At this point, the river forms an extremely small portion of the Lumpkin/Hall county line for about one mile or 1.5km. For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A river is a large natural waterway. ... The Appalachian Mountains are a system of North American mountains running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Alabama in the United States, although the northernmost mainland portion ends at the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec. ... A confluence is the merger or meeting of two or more objects (or subjects) that seem to inseparably bind their respective forces or attributes into a point of junction. ... United States Highway 19 is a north-south United States highway. ... Lumpkin County is a county located in the state of Georgia. ... A county seat is a town which is the capital of a county. ... Gold rush ad A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. ... Dahlonega is a town located in Lumpkin County, Georgia, USA, and is its county seat6. ... Originally, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count (in Great Britain, an earl, though the original earldoms covered larger areas) by reason of that office. ... Dawson County is a county located in the state of Georgia. ... Hall County is a county located in the state of Georgia. ... Forsyth County is a county located in the state of Georgia. ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... The Chattahoochee River runs from the Chattahoochee Spring in the mountains of northeast Georgia, southwestward by Atlanta and through its suburbs, then turns southward to form the southern half of the Georgia/Alabama state line. ... See also: Lake Lanier (disambiguation) Lake Lanier (officially Lake Sidney Lanier) is a manmade lake in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. ... A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. ... The term native as an adjective or noun has the following meanings. ... Alternate meanings: Cherokee (disambiguation) The Cherokee are a people native to North America who first inhabited what is now the eastern and southeastern United States before most were forcefully moved to the Ozark Plateau. ... Thalweg (a German word compounded from Tal, valley, and Weg, way) is a term adopted into English usage for geography. ...

The word "Chestatee" is a Cherokee word meaning roughly "pine torch place" or "place of lights", because they would use bonfires along the riverbanks to light their torches. They would then use these torches for hunting deer and other wild game in the forest. The Chestatee Regional Library System takes its name from the river. Cherokee is an Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people. ... A bonfire or balefire is a large controlled outdoor fire made from bales of straw or wood. ... Riverbank is a city located in Stanislaus County, California. ... This article is about torches as portable fire sources. ... Hunting is, in its most general sense, the pursuit of a target. ... Genera About 15 in 4 subfamilies. ... Game is any animal hunted for food. ... A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, an area set aside for hunting). ...

There is at least one river gauge along the river, installed in 1907 at Georgia state highway 52 near Dahlonega. It is at latitude 34°31'41"N, longitude 83°56'23"W, at 1128.6 feet or 344.0 meters above mean sea level. The watershed area above this point is 153 square miles or 396km². The National Weather Service has not set a flood stage for this gauge. The highest level ever recorded was in 1967, at 25.17 feet or 7.67 meters on August 23rd. This is about ten times its average height or depth. 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Latitude, denoted by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... Map of Earth showing curved lines of longitude Longitude, sometimes denoted λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... A watershed or catchment basin is the region of land whose water drains into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean. ... The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ...

External links

• USGS real-time gauge at Dahlonega