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The Jackson River rises in Highland County, Virginia, near the border of West Virginia. It flows south between Back Creek Mountain and Jack Mountain, entering Bath County, where it continues to flow south. The Jackson River is impounded by Gathright Dam in Alleghany County, creating Lake Moomaw.
The property's mountainous terrain includes elevations ranging from 1,400 to 3,600 feet (430 to 1,100 m) above sea level, and is divided by 2,530-acre (10.2 km 2) Lake Moomaw. The northwest boundary is marked at the crest of Allegheny Mountain , along the border between Virginia and West Virginia ; additional mountains include Bolar Mountain to ...
It creates Lake Moomaw, which has a normal volume of 40 billion US gallons (150,000,000 m 3). The dam serves flood control and recreational purposes and is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. [2] The Gathright Dam's intake tower contains nine portals that allow it to release water between reservoir depths of 12 to 87 feet (3.7 to 26.5 m
Mill Creek Lake; Lake Monocan; Lake Moomaw; Motts Run Reservoir; Lake Nelson; Ni Reservoir; North Fork Pound Reservoir (Pound Lake) Nottoway Lake; Occoquan Reservoir ...
This is a list of lakes in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Ada Lake; Alpine Lake ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in West Virginia. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Summersville Lake is a reservoir located in the US state of West Virginia. The lake is formed by a rock-fill dam (Summersville Dam) on the Gauley River, south of Summersville in Nicholas County. It is the largest lake in West Virginia, with 2,700 acres (1,100 ha) of water and over 60 miles (97 km) of shoreline at the summer pool water level.
Dunkard Fork Wildlife Management Area is located on 470 acres (190 ha) in Marshall County near Moundsville, West Virginia. [2] Mixed hardwoods cover most of the former Jacob Crow (1815–1901) (later C.C. Mooney [d. 1970] farm, site, [2] whose major focus is a flood control lake on Dunkard Fork Wheeling Creek.