Toms Fork Explained

Toms Fork
Map:Toms_Fork_WV_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:County
Subdivision Name3:Doddridge
Length:9.3miles
Source1 Location:southeast of Porto Rico
Source1 Coordinates:39.1669°N -80.7411°W[1]
Source1 Elevation:1229feet[2]
Mouth:Meathouse Fork
Mouth Location:Sugar Camp
Mouth Coordinates:39.2401°N -80.6937°W
Mouth Elevation:810feet
Basin Size:15.5sqmi
Custom Label:Hydrologic Unit Code
Custom Data:050302010401 (USGS)

Toms Fork is a tributary of the Meathouse Fork, 9.3miles long,[3] in north-central West Virginia in the United States. Via the Meathouse Fork, Middle Island Creek, and the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 15.5sqmi[4] in a rural region on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.

Toms Fork's course is entirely in southern Doddridge County. It rises approximately 1.6miles southeast of the unincorporated community of Porto Rico, and flows generally north-northeastward, through the unincorporated community of Market, to Sugar Camp, where it flows into the Meathouse Fork. Toms Fork is paralleled for most of its course by West Virginia Route 18. It collects its largest tributary, Little Toms Fork,[5] at Market.[6] [7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{Gnis3|1548141}} Geographic Names Information System entry for Toms Fork (Feature ID #1548141) ]. Geographic Names Information System . Geographic Names Information System. 2013-08-09.
  2. [The National Map]
  3. Web site: West Virginia, Little Muskingum-Middle Island Watershed . United States Environmental Protection Agency . United States Environmental Protection Agency . 2013-08-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130715234937/http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_watershed.control?p_state=WV&p_huc=05030201&p_cycle=2008&p_report_type= . dead . 2013-07-15.
  4. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset, area data for Toms Fork watershed, 12-digit Hydrologic Unit Code 050302010401. The National Map, retrieved 2013-08-09
  5. Web site: [{{Gnis3|1542240}} Geographic Names Information System entry for Little Toms Fork (Feature ID #1542240) ]. Geographic Names Information System . Geographic Names Information System. 2013-08-09.
  6. http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map
  7. Book: West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer . 1997 . . Yarmouth, Me. . 0-89933-246-3 . 35.