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  2. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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    It was not useful for the large, newly surveyed tracts of land being opened in the west, which were being sold sight unseen to investors. In the 1783 Treaty of Paris recognizing the United States, Britain also recognized American rights to the land south of the Great Lakes and west to the Mississippi River. The Continental Congress passed the ...

  3. Tug Fork - Wikipedia

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    The Tug Fork is a tributary of the Big Sandy River, 159 miles (256 km) long, [4] in southwestern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Kentucky in the United States. Via the Big Sandy and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. It is also known as the Tug Fork River or as the Tug River.

  4. Dry Fork (Cheat River tributary) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Shavers Fork - Wikipedia

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    Shavers Fork, via the Cheat, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 214 sq mi (550 km 2). [3] It flows for much of its length through the Monongahela National Forest, and drains mostly rural and forested areas. 97% of the river's basin is forested, and two-thirds of it is public land.

  6. Cheat River - Wikipedia

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    The Cheat River is a 78.3-mile-long (126.0 km) [5] tributary of the Monongahela River in eastern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. Via the Ohio River , the Cheat and Monongahela are part of the Mississippi River watershed .

  7. Waterways of West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Clip from John Senex map c. 1710 showing the people Captain Vielle passed by to arrive in Chaouenon's country as the French Jesuit called the Shawnee.. For nearly 15 years, missionaries and "coureurs de bois" confused ideas of a "beautiful River, large, wide, deep, and worthy of comparison . . . with our great river St. Lawrence" that in 1660 and 1662 they were able to describe a river below ...

  8. List of rivers of West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. East River (New River tributary) - Wikipedia

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    The East River is a tributary of the New River, 24 miles (39 km) long, [3] in southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia in the United States.Via the New, Kanawha and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 76.4 square miles (198 km 2) [4] in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.

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