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The lake is 125 feet deep at the dam. Sutton Dam is located just above the Town of Sutton, 101 miles above the mouth of the Elk River in Charleston. It is a concrete-gravity structure 210 feet high, 1,178 feet long, and 195 feet wide at the base. It controls a 537 square mile drainage area, including the upper Elk River, and the Holly River.
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Elk River near its mouth in Charleston in 2001. The river's name most likely comes from the Native Americans of the area, who saw great numbers of elk near the stream. [11] According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Elk River has also been known historically as: Pe-quo-ni; Pe-quo-ni-cepe; Pequoni; Tis-chil-waugh; Tiskelewah ...
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The Elk River Railroad (reporting mark ELKR) was a short line operating out of Gassaway, West Virginia that ran for 61.8 miles (99.5 km) between Gilmer, West Virginia and Hartland, West Virginia, and an additional 18.6 miles (29.9 km) between Dundon, West Virginia and Widen, West Virginia.
The Monongahela River crested at 42.7 ft (13.0 m), or 10.7 ft (3.3 m) above flood state in Brownsville, and rose 18 ft (5.5 m) above flood stage in Greensboro. [7] In the latter city, the peak discharge rate was 220,000 cu ft (6,200 m 3 ), 60% greater than the previous record, and downstream at Elizabeth , the peak discharge was 178,000 cu ft ...
The Elk River is formed by a collection of intermittent streams in southwestern Greenwood County, [2] and flows for about 95 miles (153 km) [1] generally east-southeast through Butler, Elk, and Montgomery counties, past the towns of Elk Falls, Longton and Elk City. It joins the Verdigris River at the northern edge of the city of Independence.
The Elk flows through Fayetteville about a mile south of the courthouse, where it is bridged by U.S. Route 231/431. Until the late 1960s there was a "dry" stone masonry bridge (one in which the stones are held in place by the power of gravity forcing them against each other, not mortar) over the Elk; it was destroyed in a flood.