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The Holston River is a 136-mile (219 km) river that flows from Kingsport, Tennessee, to Knoxville, Tennessee.Along with its three major forks (North Fork, Middle Fork and South Fork), it comprises a major river system that drains much of northeastern Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, and northwestern North Carolina.
Laurel Creek (North Fork Holston River tributary) South Fork Holston River. Beaver Creek; ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Virginia (1974)
The village is located on the north fork of the Holston River. At least five different Native American tribes once fished this fork and hunted the surrounding grounds. It is part of the Metropolitan Statistical Area , which is a component of the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the " Tri ...
South Holston Lake is located near the town of Abingdon, Virginia and the city of Bristol, Virginia / Bristol, Tennessee, and is a 7,580-acre (31 km 2) impoundment operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Much of the reservoir is in Tennessee, but the Virginia portion of the reservoir offers anglers more than 1,600 acres (6 km 2) of
Early broadcasters in the 1950s and 1960s quickly realized Holston Mountain as a prime radio-television transmission location because it is the highest visible point that faces most of the major cities in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia in the surrounding valley between Knoxville, Tennessee, to southwest of Roanoke, Virginia. As a ...
Moccasin Gap is a water gap that is currently traversed by a channel of water, Big Moccasin Creek which is a tributary to the North Fork Holston River. [2] The climate in Scott County is classified as continental or warm-to-temperate consisting of four seasons. Average temperatures reach 77 °F (25 °C) in the summer months and drop to 36.5 °F ...
Stalnaker's settlement on the Middle Fork of the Holston River is marked on Thomas Hutchins' map of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina, as "S. Stahlmakers, the two farthest settlements in Virginia in the year 1755," center of lower right quadrant.
Alvarado is an unincorporated community in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located along the South Fork Holston River on the north end of South Holston Lake, southwest of Osceola. It is part of the Virginia Creeper National Recreation Trail.