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The James River forms near Iron Gate on the border between Alleghany and Botetourt counties, from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson rivers in the Appalachian Mountains. It flows into the Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads. Tidal waters extend west to Richmond at the river's fall line (the head of navigation). The James River through ...
The James River, a Missouri River tributary, in Jamestown. Jamestown is located at the confluence of the James River and Pipestem Creek.According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 13.356 square miles (34.59 km 2), of which 13.296 square miles (34.44 km 2) is land and 0.060 square miles (0.16 km 2) is water.
NOAA Fisheries regulates commercial and recreational marine fishing in the United States under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA). [17] [18] Established in 1976, the MSA is the primary law governing marine fisheries conservation and management in U.S. federal waters.
The term tidewater may be correctly applied to all portions of any area, including Virginia, where the water level is affected by the tides (more specifically, where the water level rises when the tide comes in). In the case of Virginia, the Tidewater region includes the land east of the Fall Line, the natural border with the Piedmont Region.
Hog Island Wildlife Management Area is a 3,908-acre (15.82 km 2) Wildlife Management Area along the lower James River in Virginia.The peninsular tip was named "Hog Island" in 1608 by Jamestown settlers who released three hogs in the area, who became feral and multiplied.
The Patapsco River Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System smart buoy. Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (CBIBS) is a network of observational buoys that are deployed throughout the Chesapeake Bay to observe the estuary's changing conditions and to serve as way points along the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.
James River Bridge, viewed from Huntington Park Beach Generally surrounded by water, the Virginia Peninsula is linked to other areas across the surrounding water barriers of the James and York Rivers , and the harbor of Hampton Roads by 2 bridge–tunnels , 2 large drawbridges , and a state-operated ferry system.
The Jamestown-Scotland Ferry began operations February 26, 1925 from the Jamestown end of SR 392 to Scotland across the James River. [ 8 ] The road on the Scotland side was added to the state highway system from 1926 to 1931, at first as an extension of State Route 351 , [ 9 ] but soon as part of SR 392.