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This list of Virginia Blue Ridge gaps is listed starting from north to south.. Potomac Water Gap, elevation 240 feet, Harpers Ferry, on U.S. Route 340; Keyes Gap, originally Vestal's Gap, elevation 895 feet, on Virginia State Route 9 in Loudoun County
The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.
Naked Mountain – Elevation 1,470 ft (450 m) High Knob Little Cobbler Mountain (North Cobbler Mountain) – Elevation 1,447 ft (441 m) 38°52′05″N 77°56′41″W / 38.8680°N 77.9448°W / 38.8680; -77.9448 ( Little Cobbler Mountain (North Cobbler Mountain
The Virginia Piedmont is largely characterized by rolling hills and numerous ridges near the boundary with the Blue Ridge Mountains. Lying between the mountain and coastal plain regions, the Piedmont region is a naturally diverse landscape. [2] The bedrock consists mostly of gneiss, schist, and granite rocks at a typical depth of between 2 and ...
Pages in category "Mountain ranges of Virginia" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
English: A map of the Cumberland Gap. The gap is shown in red letters while the mountains are colored brown. The gap is shown in red letters while the mountains are colored brown. Cities and towns are shown in grey text
An older name for the river, which appears on some early maps, was the "Pelisipi River", with such variant spellings as "Pelisippi" and "Pellissippi", and the variant form "Fiume Pelissipi". [1] The Mitchell Map (1755–1757) labels a tributary of the "Pelisipi River" as "Clinch's River".
These include Mudhole Gap SBA in the northern end of the Little Fort Valley; Peters Mill Run Bog SBA in the upper reaches of the Little Fort Valley area just south of Woodstock Tower; Signal Knob SBA and the Edinburg Gap Shale Barrens SBA, two of the easternmost Appalachian shale barrens; [6] and Scothorn Gap SBA, a 34-acre forest plan ...