Huff Creek (Guyandotte River)

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Huff Creek
Huff Creek and its drainage basin in Logan and Wyoming Counties, West Virginia

Huff Creek and its drainage basin in Logan and Wyoming Counties, West Virginia

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
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
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

  1. ↑ Altitude information in Google Earth for the coordinates given in the GNIS . Retrieved October 23, 2011
  2. ↑ Huff Creek ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ^ West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer . DeLorme , Yarmouth, Me. 1997, ISBN 0-89933-246-3 , pp. 57-58.