Rockwell Run is a mountain

stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...

in Morgan County,

West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the Bur ...

. It is a tributary of the

Potomac River The Potomac River () drains the Mid-Atlantic United States, flowing from the Potomac Highlands into Chesapeake Bay. It is long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map. Retrieved Augus ...

. The Rockwell Formation is named after Rockwell Run, where exposures of the formation were first described by Stose and Swartz in 1912.Stose, G.W., and Swartz, C.K., 1912, Description of the Pawpaw and Hancock quadrangles (Maryland-West Virginia-Pennsylvania): U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Atlas of the United States, Pawpaw-Hancock folio, no. 179, p. 24.

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Rivers of Morgan County, West Virginia Tributaries of the Potomac River Rivers of West Virginia {{WestVirginia-river-stub

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