Eastern Continental Divide - Rosman, North Carolina, USA - Watershed Markers and Monuments on Waymarking.com

U.S. Highway 178 "...climbs to the Eastern Continental Divide at Eastatoe Gap between Burnt Mountain and Indian Camp Mountain" in North Carolina.

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"The Eastern Continental Divide (ECD) or Appalachian Divide or Eastern Divide, in conjunction with other continental divides of North America, demarcates two watersheds of the Atlantic Ocean: the Gulf of Mexico watershed and the Atlantic Seaboard watershed.

Overall, the Eastern Continental Divide runs south-southwest from the Eastern Triple Divide from the summit named 'Triple Divide peak' 10.40 mi (16.73 km) due south of the New York-Pennsylvania line. The summit named 'Triple Divide peak' is the northernmost peak of three atop a broad plateau which is currently farmland near the junction of Kidney and Rooks Roads in southern Genesee Township Potter County Pennsylvania. From that northernmost peak and staying on alternative sides of rook roads, the ECD runs through the two nearby southern summits which are also in Genesee Township then southerly along the Allegheny Plateau staying west of the Allegheny Front until it plunges south along the Appalachians between the Eastern Seaboard States, and the states across or astride the Appalachians barrier ridge. As the altitude of the peaks diminishes across the Georgia, often swampy, plateau the divide meanders into the low country of Northern Florida until it reaches central Florida, ending above the north bank watershed of the Kissimmee River, which drains via Lake Okeechobee and the Okeechobee Canal Okeechobee Waterway to both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Similarly, the summit of the Triple Divide drains three ways, but only because two rivers official sources are within two miles: The St. Lawrence destined Genesee River and the Allegheny River Mississippi tributary both have source springs less than two miles from the junctions of Pennsylvania Route 49 and PA 449 a bit down the Genesee watershed from the Triple Divide summit.

Because the divide represents the highest terrain, air is forced upwards regardless of wind direction. This process of orographic enhancement leads to higher precipitation than surrounding areas. In winter, the divide is often much snowier than surrounding areas, due to orographic enhancement and cooler temperatures with elevation. Some locations in North Carolina average up to 100 inches (2,500 mm) of snow a year, and up to 175 inches (4,400 mm) a year falls in parts of West Virginia."

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