West Fork Little Kanawha River
| West Fork Little Kanawha River | |
 West Fork Little Kanawha River in Creston in 2009
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| Country | United States |
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| State | West Virginia |
| Counties | Clay, Calhoun, Roane, Wirt |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Left Fork West Fork Little Kanawha River |
| - right | Henry Fork |
| Source | |
| - location | southwest of Nebo, northern Clay County |
| - elevation | 1,178 ft (359 m) |
| - coordinates | 38°37′06″N 81°03′14″W / 38.6184296°N 81.0539982°W |
| Mouth | Little Kanawha River |
| - location | Creston, Wirt County |
| - elevation | 623 ft (190 m) |
| - coordinates | 38°56′50″N 81°16′18″W / 38.9473052°N 81.2717844°WCoordinates: 38°56′50″N 81°16′18″W / 38.9473052°N 81.2717844°W |
| Length | 48.1 mi (77 km) |
| Basin | 246 sq mi (637 km2) |
 The West Fork Little Kanawha River and its watershed
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The West Fork Little Kanawha River is a tributary of the Little Kanawha River, 48.1 miles (77.4 km) long, in west-central West Virginia in the United States. Via the Little Kanawha and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 246 square miles (640 km2) in a rural region on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau. By drainage area, it is the second-largest tributary of the Little Kanawha River, after the Hughes River.
The West Fork rises southwest of the community of Nebo in northern Clay County and flows generally north-northwestward through Calhoun County and along a portion of Calhoun County's western boundary with Roane and Wirt counties, through the communities of Nebo, Stinson, Chloe, Minnora, Orma, Arnoldsburg, and Rocksdale, to its mouth at Creston in southeastern Wirt County, where it flows into the Little Kanawha River from the south. For most of its course upstream of Arnoldsburg, it is paralleled by West Virginia Route 16; for a short distance downstream of Arnoldsburg, it is paralleled by U.S. Route 33.
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