Witcher Creek is a
tributary of the
Kanawha River, long,
in
West Virginia in the
United States. Via the Kanawha 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
[U.S. Geological Survey. ]National Hydrography Dataset
The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) is a digital database of surface water features used to make maps. It contains features such as lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, canals, dams and stream gages for the United States.
Description
Cartographers ...
, area data for Witcher Creek watershed, 12-digit Hydrologic Unit Code 050500060401
The National Map
retrieved 2013-11-18 on the
unglaciated portion of the
Allegheny Plateau.
Witcher Creek flows for its entire length in eastern
Kanawha County
Kanawha County ( ) is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 180,745, making it West Virginia's most populous county. The county seat is Charlest ...
. It rises approximately west-northwest of
Mammoth and flows southwestward through the unincorporated community of
Witcher. It flows into the Kanawha River approximately southwest of Witcher, between the town of
Belle and the unincorporated community of
Diamond. The creek is paralleled by a county road for much of its course.
According to the
Geographic Names Information System, Witcher Creek has also been known historically by the variant name “Witchers Creek.”
See also
*
List of rivers of West Virginia
References
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Rivers of West Virginia
Rivers of Kanawha County, West Virginia
Tributaries of the Kanawha River