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New River waterfront in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The New River is a 50-mile (80-km) long river in southeastern North Carolina in the United States. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The river has been plagued in more recent years by pollution by solid waste.
The New River is spanned near Fayetteville, West Virginia, by the New River Gorge Bridge . "Bridge Walk" tours are offered on the 2-foot (0.61 m) wide steel catwalk running under the bridge deck. The bridge is also open for BASE jumping once annually on Bridge Day. The New River Gorge and Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia
The New River channel begins at a volcanic lake near Cerro Prieto. [1] Today this lake feeds the Cerro Prieto Geothermal Power Station.The river flows north 15 miles (24 km) through Baja California, and another 66 miles (106 km) through California into the Salton Sea, the largest lake in California.
The most significant extension of the New River, however, was the first, an extension of the South Fork called the North New River Canal (also known as the G-15 canal). Dredging for the canal began in 1906, not long after Napoleon B. Broward won the governorship of Florida on a promise to drain the Everglades.
New River (New Hampshire), a tributary of the Ellis River on Mount Washington; New River (eastern North Carolina), which flows into the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern North Carolina; New River (Kanawha River tributary), a tributary of the Ohio River via the Kanawha River, in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia
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.
New River is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The population was 17,290 as of the 2020 census , [ 3 ] up from 14,952 at the 2010 census .
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.