Pond Creek is a

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of the

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, long, in western

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in the

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. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the

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of the

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, draining an area of on the

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portion of the Allegheny Plateau. Pond Creek flows for most of its length in southern Wood County; its watershed also drains a portion of northern Jackson County. It rises south of Rockport and flows generally west-northwestward through the unincorporated communities of Lowdell,

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, and Flinn. East of Flinn and again near its mouth, the creek briefly enters Jackson County. It flows into the Ohio River on the boundary of Jackson and Wood counties, at the community of Pond Creek. Downstream of Flinn it collects Little Pond Creek from the south. Little Pond Creek flows in Jackson County for most of its course, northwestward through the communities of Willowdale and Topins Grove. According to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, approximately 82% of the Pond Creek watershed is

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ed, mostly

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. Approximately 18% is used for pasture and agriculture.

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{{authority control Rivers of West Virginia Tributaries of the Ohio River Rivers of Wood County, West Virginia Rivers of Jackson County, West Virginia

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