River
Flint River
240 km from source to mouth · United States.
United StatesFlows into Apalachicola River
In numbers
Length
240km
Average flow
640m³/s
Basin
22,464km²
Drop
227m
from 248 m to 21 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
240 km of river and 14 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 248 m
- 2 kmJonesboro4,746 people
- 8 kmIrondale7,446 people
- 15 kmClub Lake1.0 km²
- 194 kmMontezuma3,189 people
- 251 kmLake Blackshear27 km²
- 294 kmLake Chehaw2.1 km²
- 295 kmKinchafoonee Creektributary
- 298 kmGFRR Flint River Bridge
- 298 kmAlbany74,843 people
- 401 kmBainbridge14,468 people
- 402 kmFlint River Swing Bridge (Bainbridge, Georgia)
- 435 kmSpring Creektributary
- 445 kmLake Seminole84 km²
- 446 kmChattahoochee3,144 people
- 459 kmApalachicola Riverat 21 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Georgia, United States
At the mouth it carries 645 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 3.9 seconds. It drops from 248 m to 21 m, 0.9 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 22,464 km², about the size of BZ. 3.7 million people live in it. Highest water: from February to March. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (30% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- AlbanyLargest city on its banks · 74,843 people
- Southwest Georgia Regional Airport (ABY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 6 km from the cityCar hire at TLH airport (Tallahassee)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water56 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe7 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From April to May and from September to NovemberThe best months to visit
Flint River, month by month
Highest water: from February to March
Best months to visit: from April to May and from September to November.
From about 220 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,400 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Flint River: the basin in numbers
44,606 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 3.7millionpeople live in the basin
- 85/km²people per km²
- 175maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,314mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 17.5°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 1.3%covered by lakes
- 6.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 59% Forest
- 22% Cropland
- 4% Pasture
- 8% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Flint River: what you find on the way
- 3LocksJim Woodruff Lock
- 7RapidsReeves Shoals and 6 more
- 54Boat rampsWhite Oak Creek Boat Ramp, Boat Ramp, Horseshoe Bend Boat Ramp and 51 more
- 2MarinasRick's on the River - Lake Blackshear, Lake Blackshear Marina
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Flint River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
4lakes on its wayLakeyas
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (4)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Club Lakekm 151.0km²
- Lake Blackshearkm 25127km²
- Lake Chehawkm 2942.1km²
- Lake Seminolekm 445 · 9 m deep84km²
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Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Dabneys Hill9.1 km away
- Leggetts Hill12 km away
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Flint River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Apalachicola RiverUnited States180 km470 m³/sTributaries (4)
Also: Kinchafoonee Creek, Spring Creek, Whitewater Creek, Potato Creek
In the same basin
Nearby
Rivers nearby
United States702 km290 m³/s0 km awayAlabama RiverUnited States640 km950 m³/s298 km awayMobile RiverUnited States72 km1,900 m³/s303 km awaySt. Johns RiverUnited States499 km420 m³/s330 km awayMississippi RiverUnited States3,766 km12,700 m³/s459 km awaySavannah RiverUnited States563 km360 m³/s400 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1428859) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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