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Big Sandy Creek is a 31.3-mile-long (50.4 km) [3] mountain stream which begins in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and flows into Preston County, West Virginia, in the United States. The Big Sandy flows through Bruceton Mills and Rockville, West Virginia , before crashing down the mountainside and reaching its confluence with the Cheat River at ...
Initially developed as a state forest in 1926. One of West Virginia's first CCC camps was established here in 1933. The largest of West Virginia's state parks, it contains the 11-acre (4 ha) Watoga Lake. A historic district containing the park's 103 CCC resources is listed on the NRHP. [124] [196] [198] [199] Watters Smith Memorial
Opequon Creek bridge near Martinsburg, WV. Opequon Creek (historically also Opecken [1]) is an approximately 35 mile [2] tributary stream of the Potomac River.It flows into the Potomac northeast of Martinsburg in Berkeley County, West Virginia, and its source lies northwest of the community of Opequon at the foot of Great North Mountain in Frederick County, Virginia.
Audra State Park is a West Virginia state park located on 355 acres (1.44 km 2) [3] in southwestern Barbour County. It was established around the remnants of an early 19th-century gristmill and the tiny community of Audra. A gristmill spillway is still visible in the river. [4]
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of West Virginia. List of West Virginia rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers. There are also smaller streams (i.e., branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in the state. Exclusive of major tributaries, there are about 46 named rivers in West Virginia.
Holly River State Park is a state park located in Webster County, West Virginia. Situated on the Left Fork of the Holly River near the town of Hacker Valley , it is the second largest park in the West Virginia state park system with a total of 8,294 acres (3,356 ha). [ 2 ]
[3] [2] It is the largest river port in the state of West Virginia and the 15th-largest in the United States as of 2012. Included in the port's area is 100 miles of the Ohio River from the mouth of the Scioto River in Portsmouth, Ohio to the northern border of Gallia County, Ohio, 9 miles of the Big Sandy River, and 90 miles of the Kanawha ...
Twelvepole Creek is a 32.2-mile-long (51.8 km) [5] river located in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Mississippi River watershed , by way of the Ohio River . It is alternately known as Twelve Pole Creek.