Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cheat Lake is a 13-mile-long (21 km) reservoir on the Cheat River in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. [2] It was originally named Lake Lynn, but the Board on Geographic Names officially decided upon Cheat Lake as the reservoir's name in 1976. [1] Cheat Lake is located immediately downstream of the 10-mile-long (16 km) Cheat Canyon.
Cheat Lake is located at (39.666538, -79.85 [ 1 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the Cheat Lake CDP has a total area of 15.8 square miles (41 km 2 ), of which 14.3 square miles (37 km 2 ) is land and 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2 ) (10.3%) is water.
The Cheat is formed at Parsons, West Virginia, by the confluence of Shavers Fork and Black Fork. Black Fork is fed by the Blackwater River and by the Dry, Glady, and Laurel Forks — these are traditionally referred to as the five Forks of Cheat. (The "High Falls of Cheat" [15 feet/4.6 m high] is a few miles upstream of Bemis on Shavers
The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) is an agency of the government of the U.S. state of West Virginia.While formerly known as the cabinet-level Department of Natural Resources, it is now part of the West Virginia Department of Commerce. [1]
Aug. 29—MORGANTOWN — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has joined the chorus of voices opposing Lake Lynn Generation's proposal to lower the level of Cheat Lake by 3 feet. Capito wrote to the Federal ...
Shavers Fork of the Cheat River is situated in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. It is 88.5 mi (142.4 km) long [3] and forms the Cheat at its confluence with Black Fork at Parsons. [6] It was traditionally considered one of the five Forks of Cheat and its upper reaches constitute the highest river in the eastern United ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
One (or more) extensive ice sheet advance dammed the old north-flowing drainage and created a vast lake—known as Lake Monongahela—stretching from an unknown point north of present-day Beaver, Pennsylvania for ~200 miles (320 km) south to Weston, West Virginia. A river-lake with many narrow bays, its maximum water surface rose to 1,100 feet ...