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North Landing River. Pocaty River; Northwest River (Virginia) Chowan drainage basin. Chowan River (NC) Meherrin River. Fountains Creek; Flat Rock Creek; North Meherrin River
The Shenandoah River / ˌ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə / is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, 55.6 miles (89.5 km) long with two forks approximately 100 miles (160 km) long each, [3] in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. The river and its tributaries drain the central and lower Shenandoah Valley and the Page Valley in the ...
The Native Americans had named the river Walatoola, which means "winding waters", describing the great bends in the river. However, when British settlers arrived in the 1720s they named it the Cowpasture. There is an interesting story about how the Cowpasture and neighboring rivers the Bullpasture River and Calfpasture River came to be so named ...
The Rivanna River / r ɪ ˈ v æ n ə / is a 42.1-mile-long (67.8 km) [1] tributary of the James River in central Virginia in the United States. The Rivanna's tributaries originate in the Blue Ridge Mountains ; via the James River, it is part of the watershed of Chesapeake Bay .
The James at Percival's Island Riverwalk in Lynchburg, Virginia. The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County 348 miles (560 km) [3] to the Chesapeake Bay. [4]
English: Location map of Virginia, USA. Geographic limits of the map: N: 40.2° N; ... Smith Mountain Lake; Smith River (Virginia) Stafford Regional Airport; Staunton ...
Hoop Petticoat Gap, elevation 860 feet, on U.S. Route 50 in Virginia to Romney; Paddy Gap in Paddy Mountain, elevation 1,400 feet, Brocks Gap in Little North Mountain, elevation 1,020 feet, on Virginia State Route 259 to North Mountain; Dry River Gap on U.S. Route 33 in Virginia to Harrisonburg-Franklin; Buffalo Gap on Virginia State Route 42 ...
The area is in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwestern Virginia, about 3 miles west of White Gate, Virginia. The wildland is mostly composed of the drainage of Dismal Creek, formed by a bowl between Flat Top Mountain on the northwest, Brushy Mountain on the southeast, and Sugar Run Mountain on the north.