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The Roanoke River (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) runs 410 miles (660 km) long [1] through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States. [2] A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains southeast across the Piedmont to Albemarle Sound.
Roanoke River. Dan River. Aarons Creek. Crooked Fork; Hyco River. Castle Creek; Storys Creek; Powells Creek; Ghent Creek; Cane Creek; Sargents Creek; Hyco Creek ...
Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1989 to protect and enhance wooded wetlands consisting of bottomland hardwoods and swamps with high waterfowl value along the Roanoke River. The extensive bottomland hardwood habitat of the Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge is part of what the Nature Conservancy calls "one of the ...
Big Otter River. Little Otter River; Goose Creek (Roanoke River tributary) Pigg River. Snow Creek; Big Chestnut Creek; Blackwater River. Maggodee Creek; Back Creek; Tinker Creek; North Fork Roanoke River; South Fork Roanoke River. Goose Creek (South Fork Roanoke River tributary) Pee Dee River (NC) Yadkin River (NC) Ararat River. Stewarts Creek ...
The Roanoke River Lighthouse is a historic, decommissioned lighthouse, located on the waterfront of Edenton, North Carolina. The lighthouse once stood in Albemarle Sound at the mouth of the Roanoke River , across the Sound from its current location.
Smith Mountain Dam is a concrete arch dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Smith Mountain Lake.The dam was built by Appalachian Power (a division of American Electric Power) between 1960 and 1963 for the purposes of pumped-storage hydroelectricity.
John H. Kerr Dam is concrete gravity-dam located on the Roanoke River in Virginia, creating Kerr Lake. The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1947 and 1953 for the purposes of flood control, and hydropower. The dam also serves wildlife resources, forest conservation, and public recreational uses.
Direct and indirect tributaries of the Roanoke River. Pages in category "Tributaries of the Roanoke River" The following 123 pages are in this category, out of 123 total.