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Clip from John Senex map c. 1710 showing the people Captain Vielle passed by to arrive in Chaouenon's country as the French Jesuit called the Shawnee.. For nearly 15 years, missionaries and "coureurs de bois" confused ideas of a "beautiful River, large, wide, deep, and worthy of comparison . . . with our great river St. Lawrence" that in 1660 and 1662 they were able to describe a river below ...
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of West Virginia. List of West Virginia rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers. There are also smaller streams (i.e., branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in the state. Exclusive of major tributaries, there are about 46 named rivers in West Virginia.
Big Ditch Lake. Bluestone Lake. Boley Lake. Brushy Fork Lake. Buffalo Creek Reservoir. Burnsville Lake. Cheat Lake. Conaway Run Lake. East Lynn Lake.
The Kanawha River ( / kəˈnɔːə / kə-NAW-ə) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 97 mi (156 km) long, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The largest inland waterway in West Virginia, its watershed has been a significant industrial region of the state since early in the 19th century. It is formed at the town of Gauley Bridge in ...
The ancestral Monongahela River, referred to as the Pittsburgh River, had flowed northwards from West Virginia, past Pittsburgh, into the Lake Erie basin and out the St. Lawrence River to the ocean. The lake began when the ice dammed the valley near Pittsburgh. [2] The lake changed sizes as the ice front moved and as the volume of water changed.
Crab Run (West Virginia) Cranberry River (West Virginia) Crane Creek (Bluestone River tributary) Crawley Creek. Crooked Creek (Guyandotte River tributary) Cross Creek (Ohio River tributary) Crow Run. Cummings Creek. Cutlips Fork.
The Gauley River is a 105-mile-long (169 km) [ 3] river in West Virginia. It merges with the New River to form the Kanawha River, a tributary of the Ohio River. The river features numerous recreational whitewater areas, including those in Gauley River National Recreation Area downstream of the Summersville Dam.
The Greenbrier River in Marlinton. The Greenbrier River is a tributary of the New River, 162 miles (261 km) long, [ 2] in southeastern West Virginia, in the United States. Via the New, Kanawha and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 1,656 square miles (4,290 km 2 ). [ 2]