Hackers Creek is a
tributary of the
West Fork River, long,
in north-central
West Virginia in the
United States. Via the West Fork,
Monongahela and
Ohio Rivers, it is part of the
watershed
Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to:
Hydrology
* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
of the
Mississippi River, draining an area of
on the
unglaciated portion of the
Allegheny Plateau. The stream is believed to have been named for a
settler named John Hacker (1743-1824), who lived near the creek for over twenty years from around 1770. He was a
magistrate and
patriarch in the settlement despite not being able to write.
Hackers Creek rises approximately north of
Buckhannon
Buckhannon is the only incorporated city in, and the county seat of, Upshur County, West Virginia, Upshur County, West Virginia, United States, and is located along the Buckhannon River. The population was 5,299 at the 2020 United States Census ...
in northern
Upshur County and flows westwardly into northeastern
Lewis County, where it turns northwestwardly and flows through the town of
Jane Lew into southern
Harrison County, where it joins the West Fork River from the southeast, approximately three miles (5 km) northwest of Jane Lew.
DeLorme
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(1997). ''West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer''. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. p.36. .
According to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, approximately 69% of the Hackers Creek watershed is
forested, mostly
deciduous. Approximately 28% is used for pasture and agriculture, and less than 1% is urban.
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Variant spellings
According to the Geographic Names Information System, Hackers Creek has also been known historically as:[
*Hacker's Creek
*Hackers Crick
*Heackers Creek
*Heckers Creek
NB: Neighboring Barbour County, West Virginia, also has a (much smaller) Hacker's Creek, a tributary of the Tygart Valley River, about 3 miles downstream from ]Philippi
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.
See also
* List of West Virginia rivers
References
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Rivers of West Virginia
Rivers of Lewis County, West Virginia
Rivers of Harrison County, West Virginia
Rivers of Upshur County, West Virginia