Dry Fork (Tug Fork tributary) explained
The Dry Fork is a 47.7adj=midNaNadj=mid[1] tributary of the Tug Fork, belonging to the Ohio River watershed. The river is located in McDowell County, West Virginia, and Tazewell County, Virginia, in the United States. The mouth of the Dry Fork into the Tug Fork is located at Iaeger.
Variant names
According to the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System, the Dry Fork has been known by the following names throughout its history:
- Crane Creek
- Mud Fork
- South Fork
Tributaries
Tributary streams are listed from source to mouth.
- Lick Branch
- Ray Fork
- Bills Branch
- Dick Creek
- Mile Branch
- Beech Fork
- Vall Creek
- Kewee Creek
- Big Branch
- Jacobs Fork
- Johns Branch
- War Creek
- Barrenshe Creek
- Pruett Branch
- Threefork Branch
- Bartley Creek
- Johnnycake Hollow
- Atwell Branch
- Little Slate Branch
- Dry Branch
- Bradshaw Creek
- Oozley Branch
- Hurricane Branch
- Fishtrap Branch
- Beartown Branch
- Little Staunch Branch
- Staunch Branch
- Grapevine Branch
- Betsy Branch
- Crane Creek
- Mile Branch
- Straight Branch
- Coon Branch
List of cities and towns along the Dry Fork
- Apple Grove, West Virginia
- Atwell, West Virginia
- Avondale, West Virginia
- Bartley, West Virginia
- Beartown, West Virginia
- Berwind, West Virginia
- Bradshaw, West Virginia
- Canebrake, West Virginia
- Carlos, West Virginia
- Dunford Village, Virginia
- English, West Virginia
- Excelsior, West Virginia
- Garland, West Virginia
- Iaeger, West Virginia
- Lex, West Virginia
- Lomax, West Virginia
- Raysal, West Virginia
- Rift, West Virginia
- Union City, West Virginia
- Vallscreek, West Virginia
- War, West Virginia
- Yukon, West Virginia
See also
References
37.4625°N -81.8175°W
Notes and References
- U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 13, 2011
