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As an estuary it meanders through Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and enters the Atlantic in Onslow Bay, via the New River Inlet between two barrier islands. The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway crosses the entrance of the river between the coast and the barrier island. The river is periodically dredged for fishing operations. [1]
The Shark River Inlet is the only river inlet exclusively in Monmouth County that drains directly into the Atlantic Ocean; the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers drain into Sandy Hook Bay (part of the much larger Lower New York Bay), and the Manasquan River is shared with Ocean County. Charter boats leave the inlet on a foggy summer morning. The ...
The river was heavily modified in the first half of the 20th century. The North Fork was extended as the C-12 Canal along present-day Sunrise Boulevard, while the South Fork was extended by two canals, one of which was the C-11 or South New River Canal, which connects to the Miami Canal. [4] The South New River Canal also connects to the Dania ...
New River, Arizona, a census-designated place in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area; Bradford County, Florida, named New River County from 1858 through 1861; New River Tunnel, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Marine Corps Air Station New River, near Jacksonville, North Carolina; New River Valley, in Virginia; New River Community College, in Virginia
The New River is a stream, about 8 miles (13 km) long, on the southern coast of the U.S. state of Oregon. [3] It begins slightly north of Floras Lake, at the confluence of the lake outlet and Floras Creek, [1] and runs north behind a foredune until entering the Pacific Ocean between Bandon and Port Orford.
Apparently the river had again been left off a map so Jefferson named it the New River. The name Woods and New River were used interchangeably until about 1770, when the consensus name became what it is today, the New River. [3] Human activity along the New River at New River State Park has been traced back as far as 10,000 years ago.
Much of the river's course through West Virginia is designated as the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and the New River is one of the nation's American Heritage Rivers. In 1975, North Carolina designated a 26.5-mile (42.6 km) segment of the river as "New River State Scenic River", by including it in the state's Natural and Scenic ...
The South Fork New River is a river in the U.S. state of North Carolina.. It stretches from its headwaters at a spring near Blowing Rock and the Eastern Continental Divide and meanders northward along the northwestern face of the Blue Ridge Mountains through the eastern and central portions of Watauga County and then Ashe County in northwestern North Carolina, passing through the town of Boone.