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Summersville Lake is a reservoir located in the US state of West Virginia. The lake is formed by a rock-fill dam (Summersville Dam) on the Gauley River, south of Summersville in Nicholas County. It is the largest lake in West Virginia, with 2,700 acres (1,100 ha) of water and over 60 miles (97 km) of shoreline at the summer pool water level.
The upper portion of the river, above Sutton Lake, is a popular coldwater trout stream. Some reports of a 2013 Wake Forest University study of selenium contamination in Sutton Lake in North Carolina (allegedly due to coal ash from the Sutton power plant of Duke Energy). erroneously attributed this contamination to Sutton Lake in West Virginia. [7]
Clay County, West Virginia: 1992 Academy Awards Best Picture [1] [8] [9] Sommersby: Jon Amiel: 1993 Snowshoe, West Virginia [3] Off and Running: Ed Bianchi: 1991 The Bodyguard: Mick Jackson: 1992 Morgantown, West Virginia [5] Lassie: Daniel Petrie: 1994 Summers County, West Virginia [3] Primal Fear: Gregory Hoblit: 1996 McDowell County, West ...
Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia.It is the seat of Kanawha County [9] and is at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers. The population was 48,864 at the 2020 census. [5]
Rock Lake Pool was an outdoor swimming pool located in South Charleston, West Virginia operating from 1942 to 1985. [1] Being 550 feet (170 m) long, it was billed as "the largest and most beautiful pool in the East." [1] The pool was built in an old rock quarry in the 1930s [2] and opened by Joe, David, and Sam Wilan in 1942. [3]
Location of Kanawha County in West Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kanawha County, West Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Sleepy Creek Lake is a 205-acre (0.8 km 2) impoundment of the Meadow Branch of Sleepy Creek in Berkeley County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. [1] The reservoir is located entirely within the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area .
This is a list of lakes in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Ada Lake; Alpine Lake ...