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Laurel Fork (Virginia)
Laurel Fork may refer to: Places United States * Laurel Fork (Cheat River), a river in West Virginia *Laurel Fork (Clear Fork Guyandotte River) The Laurel Fork is a tributary of the Clear Fork, long, in southern West Virginia in the United States. Via the Clear Fork and the Guyandotte and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of Acreages ..., a river in West Virginia * Laurel Fork (North Fork South Branch Potomac River), a stream in Virginia and West Virginia * Laurel Fork (conservation area), a wildland in western Virginia * Laurel Fork Railway in Tennessee * Laurel Fork, Tennessee * Laurel Fork, Virginia * Laurel Fork, West Virginia {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Fork (Cheat River)
Laurel Fork is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 15, 2011 river in eastern West Virginia, USA. It is a tributary of the Dry Fork; via the Dry Fork, the Black Fork, and the Cheat, Monongahela and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of in the Allegheny Mountains. With the Dry Fork, the Glady Fork, the Shavers Fork and the Blackwater River, it is considered to be one of the five principal headwaters tributaries of the Cheat River. Geography The Laurel Fork flows for its entire length in eastern Randolph County. It rises on a divide on the Randolph-Pocahontas county border separating the watershed of the Cheat River from that of the Greenbrier, and flows north-northeastwardly in a meandering course between Middle Mountain and Rich Mountain, through the Monongahela National Forest, to its mouth at the Dry Fork just south of the Tucker County border, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Fork (Clear Fork Guyandotte River)
The Laurel Fork is a tributary of the Clear Fork, long, in southern West Virginia in the United States. Via the Clear Fork and the Guyandotte and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of Acreages of HUC 12 watershed 050701010201, totaling 36084.13 acres. in a rural area on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau. The Laurel Fork rises in western Raleigh County, approximately west of Lester, and flows generally westward through northern Wyoming County, through the unincorporated communities of Glen Rogers, Ravencliff, Sabine, Glen Fork, Jesse, Matheny, and Edith, to the town of Oceana, where it flows into the Clear Fork from the east. Downstream of Jesse, the stream is paralleled by West Virginia Route 10. See also *List of rivers of West Virginia 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 stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Fork (North Fork South Branch Potomac River)
The Laurel Fork is a stream in Virginia and West Virginia, United States. The stream flows north from Highland County, Virginia, where its source and the majority of its length is located, to its mouth in Pendleton County, West Virginia. Laurel Fork is a tributary to the North Fork South Branch Potomac River, making it a part of the Potomac River watershed. The area surrounding Laurel Fork is home to several plant and animal species found nowhere else in Virginia, and is a prime example of a northern boreal forest in the state. Course Laurel Fork begins in a mountainous region of Highland County, Virginia near the county's western border with Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The stream's source is located approximately southwest of U.S. Route 250 near the southern slopes of Bear Mountain at an elevation of . This location is approximately to the east of the Eastern Continental Divide. From its source, Laurel Fork flows northward, crossing under U.S. 250, in a winding manne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Fork (conservation Area)
Laurel Fork (conservation area), a wildland in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of western Virginia, has been recognized by the Wilderness Society as a special place worthy of protection from logging and road construction. The Wilderness Society has designated the area as a “Mountain Treasure”.Virginia's Mountain Treasures, report issued by The Wilderness Society, May, 1999 A 200-year-old growth forest, in the center of the area, has trees 20 to 40 inches in diameter. The area contains several intact watersheds that maintain water quality downstream. This wildland is part of the '' Clinch Ranger District Cluster''. Location and access The area is located in the Cumberland Mountains of Southwestern Virginia, about 6.8 miles south of Big Stone Gap, Virginia and 20 miles north of Kingsport, Tennessee. It is southeast of US 23. There are no maintained trails in the area, however there are several roads, closed to motor vehicles, that are popular with horse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Fork Railway
The Laurel Fork Railway was a small, standard-gauge logging railroad that operated entirely in Carter County, Tennessee from 1912 to 1927. Built by the Pittsburgh Lumber Company to serve a double-band sawmill at Braemar, in present-day Hampton, Tennessee. The Laurel Fork Railroad at its peak totaled no more than of rail. Lines and spurs carried timber from 12,000 acres (48,000 km²) of the mountainous watershed of the Laurel Fork of the Doe River that was estimated to contain 150 million board feet (350,000 m³) of lumber. A proposed interchange with the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad failed over inability to negotiate rates favorable to both companies. As a result, the Laurel Fork was incorporated as a common carrier and a six-mile (9.6 km) line into Elizabethton, Tennessee was built to carry finished lumber to an interchange with the Virginia and Southwestern Railway. A June 13, 1924, flood on the Doe River washed away much track and roadbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Fork, Tennessee
Laurel Fork is an unincorporated community in Carter County, Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ..., United States. Notes Unincorporated communities in Carter County, Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Tennessee {{CarterCountyTN-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Fork, Virginia
Laurel Fork is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Virginia. It is located off U.S. Route 58 and is east-southeast of Hillsville, Virginia. Laurel Fork has a post office with the ZIP code 24352. Before the town was known as Laurel Fork, it was called Bolt Town, named after a Doctor Bolt and his numerous family members who originally inhabited the town. Then consisting of Sam Bolt's store, a post office, and a few farms, Bolt Town was nicknamed "Little Cincinnati" because of the perceived superior attitude of its residents. Eventually, the community took its name from the Laurel Fork Creek that winds through the hills nearby, which in turn was named after the native Rhododendron. Early English settlers, not knowing the Rhododendron's name, called it "laurel" after the shrubs they knew from England. Late nineteenth-century census records show that 60 percent of the Laurel Fork population could read and write. Around 1903 - 1904, the Laurel Fork Male and Female Acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
