Big Sandy Creek (Cheat River)
| Big Sandy Creek | |
| River | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| States | Pennsylvania, West Virginia |
| Counties | Fayette PA, Preston WV |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Little Sandy Creek (Big Sandy Creek) |
| Source | Chestnut Ridge [1] |
| - location | Fayette County, PA |
| - elevation | 2,256 ft (688 m) [2] |
| - coordinates | 39°51′01″N 79°39′15″W / 39.85028°N 79.65417°W |
| Mouth | Cheat River [3] |
| - location | Jenkinsburg, WV |
| - elevation | 616 ft (188 m) |
| - coordinates | 39°35′48″N 79°44′55″W / 39.59667°N 79.74861°W |
| Discharge | for Rockville, WV |
| - average | 50 cu ft/s (1 m3/s) [4] |
| - max | 931 cu ft/s (26 m3/s) (1912) |
| - min | 4.1 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) (1953) |
This article refers to the Cheat River tributary in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. For the similarly named river that forms the border between Kentucky and West Virginia, see Big Sandy River (Ohio River).
Big Sandy Creek is a 31.3-mile-long (50.4 km)[5] mountain stream which begins in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and flows into Preston County, West Virginia, in the United States. The Big Sandy flows through Bruceton Mills and Rockville, West Virginia, before crashing down the mountainside and reaching its confluence with the Cheat River at the abandoned town of Jenkinsburg.
The Big Sandy is a popular whitewater kayaking run, a destination for paddlers from many states in the late winter and early spring. The most commonly run section is the Class-V Lower Big Sandy, from Rockville to Jenkinsburg, which contains two runnable waterfalls: Wonder Falls (Class IV) and Big Splat (Class 5.1).
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey (1973). Brownfield, Pennsylvania quadrangle (Map). 1:24,000. 7.5-Minute Series (Topographic).
- ^ "Big Sandy Creek Source". Elevation Query. U.S. Geological Survey. http://gisdata.usgs.gov/xmlwebservices2/elevation_service.asmx/getElevation?X_Value=-79.65417&Y_Value=39.85040&Elevation_Units=FEET&Source_Layer=-1&Elevation_Only=FALSE. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ^ "Big Sandy Creek". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. 1980-06-27. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1535963. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ^ United States Geological Survey; USGS 03070500 BIG SANDY CREEK AT ROCKVILLE, WV; retrieved July 18, 2009.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed August 15, 2011
[edit] External links
- National Whitewater River Inventory:
- Friends of the Cheat
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