Huff Creek (Guyandotte River)
Huff Creek | ||
Huff Creek and its drainage basin in Logan and Wyoming Counties, West Virginia |
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Data | ||
Water code | US : 1540551 | |
location | West Virginia , USA | |
River system | Ohio River | |
Drain over | Guyandotte River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of Mexico | |
source | northwest of Kopperston , WV 37 ° 46 ′ 35 ″ N , 81 ° 35 ′ 1 ″ W |
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Source height | 777 m | |
muzzle | at Huff Junction , WV in the Guyandotte River Coordinates: 37 ° 43 ′ 49 " N , 81 ° 52 ′ 23" W 37 ° 43 ′ 49 " N , 81 ° 52 ′ 23" W |
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Mouth height | 224 m | |
Height difference | 553 m | |
Bottom slope | 16 ‰ | |
length | 34 km | |
Catchment area | 130 km² |
Huff Creek is a 34 km long tributary of the Guyandotte River in the southwest of the US state West Virginia . About the Guyandotte River and the Ohio River it belongs to the catchment area of the Mississippi River and drains an area with a size of 130 km 2 in a rural area of the Allegheny Plateau that was not glaciated .
Huff Creek has its source in northern Wyoming County , about three kilometers northwest of Kopperston and flows generally westward through the unincorporated communities Lacoma, Cyclone and Campus in Wyoming Counties and Gillman Bottom , Claypool , Mineral City , Davin and Mallory in Logan Counties to Huff Junction , where it flows into the Guyandotte River about one and a half kilometers southeast of Man from the east. Below Lacoma, the creek is accompanied by West Virginia Route 10 .
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection states that approximately 97% of the Huff Creek drainage basin is forested , mostly deciduous.
See also
supporting documents
- ↑ Altitude information in Google Earth for the coordinates given in the GNIS . Retrieved October 23, 2011
- ↑ Huff Creek ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 18, 2015.
- ↑ United States Environmental Protection Agency : Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental Results: Assessment Summary for Reporting Year 2008, West Virginia's Upper Guyandotte Watershed ( English ) Archived from the original on October 15, 2011. Accessed July 18, 2015.
- ↑ West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection: Upper Guyandotte River ( English ) In: Watershed Atlas Project ( Memento April 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) . Archived from the original on April 5, 2005. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
- ^ West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer . DeLorme , Yarmouth, Me. 1997, ISBN 0-89933-246-3 , pp. 57-58.