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The park is located on the tailwater shores of Beech Fork Lake, a flood control impoundment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Beech Fork of Twelvepole Creek. Since its development in the mid-1970s, Beech Fork State Park has proven to be a popular recreation spot for the residents of nearby Barboursville and Huntington, West Virginia ...
Location: Taylor, West Virginia, United States: Nearest city: Grafton, West Virginia: Coordinates: Length: 1.6 km (0.99 mi) Area: 1,750 acres (7.1 km 2): Average ...
Beech Fork Lake is a 720 acre (2.9 km 2) reservoir located near Lavalette in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States. Beech Fork Lake is also partly located in neighboring Cabell County . Millers Fork and Stowers Branch join Beech Fork with their own river valleys contributing to the majority of the lakesurface of Beech Fork Lake.
West Virginia contains a network of eight state forests that help to protect over 70,000 acres (28,000 ha) of wooded lands in the state. Most of the forests are managed by the West Virginia Division of Forestry, although Kanawha State Forest is managed as a state park by the Division of Natural Resources.
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 ...
The park is on the tailwater shores of Beech Fork Lake, a flood control impoundment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Beech Fork of Twelvepole Creek. Beech Fork Lake as a flood control impoundment was authorized by the Flood Control Act of October 23, 1962, and was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the mid-1970s. The ...
The Chaplin River in Perryville. The Chaplin River is an 85.6-mile-long (137.8 km) [1] tributary of the Beech Fork of the Salt River in the U.S. state of Kentucky. [2]The name comes from Captain Abraham Chapline, an early explorer of the area.
The Beech Fork, [1] or Beech Fork River, [2] [3] is a 112-mile-long (180 km) [4] river in central Kentucky in the United States. It is a tributary of the Rolling Fork of the Salt River , with its waters flowing eventually to the Ohio River and ultimately the Mississippi River .