Tygart Valley River
| Tygart Valley River | ||
 At the mouth of the Buckhannon River ; the image has been taken along the B & O Railroad between Belington and Philippine added |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | US : 1553309 | |
| location | West Virginia ( USA ) | |
| River system | Mississippi River | |
| Drain over | Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of Mexico | |
| source | in Pocahontas County in the Allegheny Mountains 38 ° 28 ′ 6 ″ N , 79 ° 58 ′ 51 ″ W |
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| Association with |
West Fork River to Monongahela River in Fairmont Coordinates: 39 ° 27 ′ 54 ″ N , 80 ° 9 ′ 11 ″ W 39 ° 27 ′ 54 ″ N , 80 ° 9 ′ 11 ″ W |
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| Mouth height |
263 m
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| length | 257 km | |
| Catchment area | 3442 km² | |
| Drain at the Philippi gauge, West Virginia |
NNQ (1953) MQ HHQ (1985) |
0.1 54 m³ / s 1727 m³ / s
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| Left tributaries | Middle Fork River , Buckhannon River | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Tygart River Lake | |
 Map of the catchment area of the Monongahela River, the Tygart Valley River is highlighted |
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 The Tygart Valley River in Elkins (2006) |
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 Tygart River Lake with dam near Grafton, West Virginia. View to the south (upstream) |
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The Tygart Valley River , sometimes referred to as the Tygart River for short , is the right-hand headwaters of the Monongahela River in the east-central part of West Virginia in the United States .
The 257 km long river is part of the catchment area of the Mississippi River via the Monongahela River and Ohio River and drains an area of 3442 km² in the Allegheny Mountains and the non- glacial part of the Allegheny Plateau .
Run
The Tygart Valley River rises in Pocahontas County in the Allegheny Mountains and flows generally north-northwest through Randolph County , Barbour County , Taylor County, and Marion Counties . It passes through the towns of Huttonsville , Mill Creek , Beverly , Elkins , Junior , Belington , Philippi , Arden and Grafton before it forms the Monongahela River with the West Fork River near Fairmont .
Below Elkins, the Tygart Valley River squeezes in a breakthrough valley between Rich Mountain and Laurel Mountain , which are considered part of the westernmost chain of the Allegheny Mountains and form the border between the mountains and the Allegheny Plateau. The river receives its major tributaries, the Buckhannon River and the Middle Fork River , in Barbour County between Belington and Philippi. Directly above Grafton, the river has been dammed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers since 1938 and forms Tygart Lake . Valley Falls State Park stretched along the river between Grafton and Fairmont .
Hydrology
The United States Geological Survey operates a gauge in Philippi . The average annual flow rate there was 54 m³ / s. The highest discharge rate in this period was estimated on November 5, 1985 at 1727 m³, the lowest discharge value of 0.1 m³ / s was recorded on several days in October 1953.
Further upriver near Dailey in Randolph County, the average annual runoff between 1915 and 2005 was 10 m³ / s. The highest value was recorded on May 17, 1996 with 564 m³ / s. A runoff value of zero was recorded for several days during the autumn months of 1930 and 1953.
history
The Tygart Valley was first settled by European settlers in 1753, when David Tygart (named after the valley and river) and Robert Files (or Foyle) and their families settled in separate places around what is now Beverly . Although there was no recent conflict between Whites and Indians in the immediate area, that summer a Native American tribe migrating the Shawnee Trail discovered the Files family hut and killed seven family members. A son escaped and alerted the Tygarts, who managed to escape. In what is now Randolph County , no other white settlers attempted to settle in the area until 1772. It is not clear whether Tygart was among the settlers who settled in 1772.
The brothers John and Samuel Pringle, who had settled on the Buckhannon River , a tributary of the Tygart Valley River in what is now Upshur County , in 1761 , acted like their contemporary Daniel Boone in Kentucky and led numerous immigrant settlers to the main valley, whose lowlands were rich at the time of game and fertile land. Settlers of the 1770s and 1780s included the Connelly, Hadden, Jackson, Nelson, Riffle, Stalnaker, Warwick, Westfall, Whiteman, and Wilson families.
Name variants
The United States Board on Geographic Names named the river Tygart River in 1902 , but changed it to Tygart Valley River in 1950 . According to the Geographic Names Information System , the Tygart Valley River has historically had a number of other names:
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literature
- Hamilton, Carolyn Fortney (2004), West Virginia's Lower Tygart Valley River: People and Places , Terra Alta, West Virginia : Headline Books, Inc.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Tygart Valley River in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- ^ A b Tygart Valley River ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ^ A b Donald L. Rice: Tygart Valley River . In: Ken Sullivan (Ed.): The West Virginia Encyclopedia . West Virginia Humanities Council, Charleston, West Virginia 2006, ISBN 0-9778498-0-5 , p. 721.
- ^ A b S. M. Ward, GR Crosby: Water Resources Data, West Virginia, Water Year 2005 ( English , PDF; 2.7 MB) United States Geological Survey . Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ^ A b West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer . DeLorme , Yarmouth, Maine 1997, ISBN 0-89933-246-3 , pp. 25-26, 36-37, 47.
- ^ Howard G. Adkins: Allegheny Mountains . In: Ken Sullivan (Ed.): The West Virginia Encyclopedia . West Virginia Humanities Council, Charleston, West Virginia 2006, ISBN 0-9778498-0-5 , p. 10.
- ↑ United States Army Corps of Engineers : Tygart Lake ( English ) Archived from the original on May 17, 2011. Information: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ^ Maxwell, Hu: The History of Barbour County, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time, The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va. (Reprinted, McClain Printing Company, Parsons, W.Va., 1968) 1899, pp. 180-181.
- ^ Rice, Otis K., and Stephen W. Brown: West Virginia, A History , 2nd Edition, The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 1993, p. 29.
