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The Hannibal Locks and Dam are a United States Army Corps of Engineers concrete locks and lift gate dam, located at river mile marker 126.4 on the Ohio River at Hannibal, Ohio and New Martinsville, West Virginia. The locks and dam were built to replace the wicket-type locks and dams Number 12, 13 and 14.
According to Pine Grove Recorder Sandra Hurst, the town is buying some water from the Wetzel County Public Service Department sourced from New Martinsville, but that is only a temporary option.
New Martinsville is located at (39.657465, -80.859504 Doolin Run and Fishing Creek are located downstream nearby, just south of town. [8] [9]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.71 square miles (7.02 km 2), of which 2.67 square miles (6.92 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) is water.
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The lake changed sizes as the ice front moved and as the volume of water changed. At its largest, it rose to 1,100 feet (340 m) above sea level. Eventually the water found a low divide near New Martinsville, West Virginia, creating an outlet to the south and west into the Teays River. Thus, the upper Ohio network of river valleys came into form.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in West Virginia. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Wetzel County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,442. [1] Its county seat is New Martinsville. [2] The county, founded in 1846, is named for Lewis Wetzel, a famous frontiersman and Indian fighter. [3]
Point Pleasant Creek is a tributary of Middle Island Creek, 10.4 miles (16.7 km) long, [3] in northwestern West Virginia in the United States.Via Middle Island Creek and the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 60.5 square miles (157 km 2) [4] in a rural region on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.