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This is a list of rivers in the continental United States by average discharge (streamflow) in cubic feet per second. All rivers with average discharge more than 15,000 cubic feet per second are listed.
Streamflow and flood information at Kanawha Falls since 1877 is available from the U.S. Geological Survey. [8] Three reservoirs on the New River ( Claytor and Bluestone Lakes) and Gauley River ( Summersville Lake ) reduced the estimated 100-year flood discharge under 20th-century climate by about half.
Tug Fork at Mohawk, McDowell County, West Virginia Fourpole Creek is a 4.8-mile-long (7.7 km) [ 1 ] tributary of the Tug Fork , belonging to the Ohio River and Mississippi River watersheds . It is located in McDowell and Mingo counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia . [ 2 ]
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.
The Dry Fork is a 39.1-mile-long (62.9 km) [2] tributary of the Black Fork of the Cheat River in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA.Via the Black Fork, the Cheat, and the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
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 ...
It meets the Gauley River to become the Kanawha River in south-central West Virginia. [6] The Kanawha then flows into the Ohio River at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Much of the river's course is lined with steep cliffs and rock outcrops, particularly in its gorge in West Virginia. [6] [9] The New River Gorge Bridge on U.S. 19 in West Virginia
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.