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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 ]
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Sutton is located at (38.664437, -80.710172), [11] along the Elk [12]According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.83 square miles (2.15 km 2), of which 0.78 square miles (2.02 km 2) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km 2) is water.
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
Elk River Wildlife Management Area is located on 18,225 acres (7,375 ha) [2] east of Sutton in Braxton County, West Virginia. It protects lands along the Holly River and Elk River upstream of Sutton Lake.
Sutton Lake is a 1,520-acre (6 km 2) reservoir on the Elk River in Braxton and Webster counties, West Virginia. Sutton Lake is located just upstream of Sutton. It was authorized by Congress in the Flood Control Act of 1938. Construction of the dam began in 1956 and was completed in 1961.
Braxton County is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,447. [1] The county seat is Sutton. [2] The county was formed in 1836 [3] from parts of Lewis, Kanawha, and Nicholas counties and named for Carter Braxton, a Virginia statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
The Holly River is a tributary of the Elk River in central West Virginia in the United States. Via the Elk, Kanawha , and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River , draining an area of 148 square miles (380 km 2 ) [ 5 ] in a rural region of the Allegheny Mountains .