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Upper Tract is notable as one of the driest places in the United States east of the Mississippi River, owing to an isolated rain shadow from Spruce Knob to the west. [4] Between 1899 and 1930 Upper Tract averaged only 28.82 inches or 732.0 millimetres of precipitation, and in the extreme drought year of 1930 it received a remarkably low 9.50 ...
Pendleton County Poor Farm is a historic poor farm house located at Upper Tract, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was built about 1900, and is a large, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story frame building. It features a full width front porch and hipped roof with dormers. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
Germany Valley lies west of North Fork Mountain. According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 698 square miles (1,810 km 2), of which 696 square miles (1,800 km 2) is land and 2.1 square miles (5.4 km 2) (0.3%) is water. [12] It is the fifth-largest county in West Virginia by area.
Germany Valley is situated in the upper reaches of the North Fork South Branch Potomac River in northeastern Pendleton County, West Virginia.The Valley floor is at an elevation of approximately 2,100 feet (640 m) with the surrounding mountaintops about 500 to 1,200 feet (150 to 370 meters) higher.
Cunningham-Hevener House is a historic home located at Upper Tract, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was built about 1880, and is a two-story, T-shaped Greek Revival / Italian Villa style masonry dwelling. It features a full width, two-story porch supported by Ionic order columns. [2]
A record drought in the eastern part of the nation [5] sees Upper Tract, West Virginia record only 9.50 inches (241.3 mm) of precipitation for the year – the record lowest for a calendar year in the US east of the Mississippi. [6] Averaged over the contiguous US the twelve months from July 1930 to June 1931 remains the driest such period on ...
Upper Tract, West Virginia; Z. Zigler, West Virginia This page was last edited on 31 January 2014, at 05:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...