New Creek Mountain is a

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ridge A ridge or a mountain ridge is a geographical feature consisting of a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crest for an extended distance. The sides of the ridge slope away from the narrow top on either side. The line ...

of the

Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, also called the Ridge and Valley Province or the Valley and Ridge Appalachians, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division and are also a belt within the Appalachian Mountains extending ...

Grant Grant or Grants may refer to: Places *Grant County (disambiguation) Australia * Grant, Queensland, a locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia United Kingdom *Castle Grant United States * Grant, Alabama *Grant, Inyo County, C ...

and

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counties in the

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. The mountain is named for

New Creek New Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 stream in eastern West Virginia, United States. It is the third major West Virginia tributary to the North ...

which rises and flows along its western flanks. It is part of the

Wills Mountain Anticline Wills may refer to: * Will (law), a legal document Places Australia * Wills, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Boulia * Division of Wills, an Australian electoral division in Victoria United States * Wills Township, LaPorte County, Indiana ...

, with

Knobly Mountain Knobly Mountain is a ridge and part of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, located east of New Creek Mountain in Mineral and Grant counties, West Virginia, in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known a ...

along its eastern flank. The

Allegheny Front The Allegheny Front is the major southeast- or east-facing escarpment in the Allegheny Mountains in southern Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern West Virginia, and western Virginia, USA. The Allegheny Front forms the boundary between the Rid ...

rises steeply to the west of New Creek Mountain. Oriskany (Ridgeley) sandstone cliffs ring the entire mountain. New Creek Mountains near Claysville WV from Book of the Royal Blue October 1908 Vol 12 No 01 Page 11

New Creek Mountains near Claysville WV from Book of the Royal Blue October 1908 Vol 12 No 01 Page 11

Saddle Mountain, prominent in the view eastward from the Skyland Overlook on

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, is a saddle-shaped dip in the mountain's ridgecrest. The New Creek Mountain Cliffs are high, lining a great cleft in the mountain that rivals the famed

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* * Landforms of Grant County, West Virginia Landforms of Mineral County, West Virginia Ridges of West Virginia {{PotomacHighlandsWV-geo-stub