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Bullpasture River. Jackson River. Potts Creek. Dunlap Creek. Ogle Creek (Virginia) Cedar Creek (Jackson River tributary) Back Creek. Little Back Creek. Lynnhaven River.
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] The river length extends to 444 miles (715 km) if the Jackson River is included, the longer of its two headwaters. [ 3]
The Shenandoah River / ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə / 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 Rappahannock River is a river in eastern Virginia, in the United States, [2] approximately 195 miles (314 km) in length. [3] It traverses the entire northern part of the state, from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the west where it rises, across the Piedmont to the Fall Line, and onward through the coastal plain to flow into the Chesapeake Bay, south of the Potomac River.
Catoctin Creek (Virginia) Cedar Creek (James River tributary) Cedar Creek (North Fork Shenandoah River tributary) Cedar Run (Occoquan River tributary) Chatman Branch (Dan River tributary) Cherrystone Creek. Chestnut Creek. Chickahominy River. Chopawamsic Creek.
The York River is a navigable estuary, approximately 34 miles (55 km) long, [ 4] in eastern Virginia in the United States. It ranges in width from 1 mile (1.6 km) at its head to 2.5 miles (4.0 km) near its mouth on the west side of Chesapeake Bay. Its watershed drains an area of the coastal plain of Virginia north and east of Richmond .
The Virginia Peninsula is located in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. It is sometimes known as the Lower Peninsula to distinguish it from two other peninsulas to the north, the Middle Peninsula and the Northern Neck . It is the site of historic Jamestown, founded in 1607 as the first ...
The Elizabeth River is a 6-mile-long (10 km) [1] tidal estuary forming an arm of Hampton Roads harbor at the southern end of Chesapeake Bay in southeast Virginia in the United States. It is located along the southern side of the mouth of the James River , between the cities of Portsmouth , Norfolk , and Chesapeake .