Point Pleasant Creek | |
Map: | Point_Pleasant_Creek_map.png |
Map Size: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Size: | 300 |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | United States |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | West Virginia |
Subdivision Type3: | Counties |
Subdivision Name3: | Wetzel, Tyler |
Length: | 10.4miles |
Source1 Location: | south of New Martinsville, Wetzel County |
Source1 Coordinates: | 39.6112°N -80.8634°W[1] |
Source1 Elevation: | 987feet[2] |
Mouth: | Middle Island Creek |
Mouth Location: | Middlebourne, Tyler County |
Mouth Coordinates: | 39.5037°N -80.9029°W |
Mouth Elevation: | 663feet |
Basin Size: | 60.5sqmi |
Tributaries Left: | Elk Fork |
Custom Label: | Hydrologic Unit Codes |
Custom Data: | 050302010502, 050302010503 (USGS) |
Point Pleasant Creek is a tributary of Middle Island Creek, 10.4miles long,[3] in northwestern West Virginia in the United States. Via Middle Island Creek and the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 60.5sqmi[4] in a rural region on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.
Point Pleasant Creek rises in southwestern Wetzel County, approximately 2miles south of New Martinsville, and flows southward into Tyler County and through the unincorporated community of Kidwell, near which it collects its largest tributary, the Elk Fork. It flows into Middle Island Creek on the northern boundary of the town of Middlebourne. Upstream of Kidwell, it is paralleled by West Virginia Route 180; for the remainder of its course it is mostly paralleled by West Virginia Route 18.[5] [6]