Brocks Gap is a water gap in Rockingham County, Virginia, where the North Fork of the

Shenandoah River The Shenandoah River is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, long with two forks approximately long each,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 in t ...

flows through

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. The gap was the proposed site of the never-built

Brocks Gap Dam Brocks Gap Dam was a never-built proposal for a water storage dam on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River at Brocks Gap in northwest Virginia. The proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers encountered opposition from local residents and was ...

and is traversed by

Virginia Route 259 State Route 259 (SR 259) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs a total of in two sections. The southern section, in northern Rockingham County, has a length of from Interstate 81 (I-81) and U.S. Route ...

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{{Gaps of the Appalachian Mountains Landforms of Rockingham County, Virginia Water gaps of Virginia