Point Pleasant Creek is a

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Middle Island Creek Middle Island Creek is a river, 77 miles (124 km) long, in northwestern West Virginia in the United States. It is a tributary of the Ohio River, draining an area of 565 square miles (1,463 km2) on the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau. It w ...

, long, in northwestern

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in the

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. Via Middle Island Creek and the

Ohio River The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illino ...

, it is part of the

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of the

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, draining an area of U.S. Geological Survey.

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, area data for Point Pleasant Creek and Elk Fork watersheds, 12-digit

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s 050302010503 and 050302010502
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retrieved 2013-07-17 in a rural region on the

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portion of the

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. Point Pleasant Creek rises in southwestern Wetzel County, approximately south of

New Martinsville New Martinsville is a city in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 5,186 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Wetzel County. Geography New Martinsville is located at (39.657465, -80.85 ...

, and flows southward into Tyler County and through the unincorporated community of Kidwell, near which it collects its largest tributary, the Elk Fork. It flows into Middle Island Creek on the northern boundary of the town of Middlebourne. Upstream of Kidwell, it is paralleled by West Virginia Route 180; for the remainder of its course it is mostly paralleled by

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.The National Map
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Rivers of West Virginia Rivers of Tyler County, West Virginia Rivers of Wetzel County, West Virginia {{WestVirginia-river-stub

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