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FIPS PUB 5-1 (published on June 15, 1970, and superseded by FIPS PUB 5-2 on May 28, 1987) stated that certain numeric codes "are reserved for possible future use in identifying American Samoa (03), Canal Zone (07), Guam (14), Puerto Rico (43), and Virgin Islands (52)", but these codes were omitted from FIPS PUB 5-2 without comment.
West Virginia, United States: Coordinates: Area: 12,747 acres (51.59 km 2) Elevation: 2,159 ft (658 m) Operator: West Virginia Division of Natural Resources and West Virginia Division of Forestry: Website: wvstateparks.com /park /coopers-rock-state-forest /
Trout Pond — formerly called Old Pond — located near Wardensville in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA, is the state's only natural lake. The small "lake" is situated in the Trout Pond Recreation Area (TPRA) of the George Washington National Forest. Formerly, the pond had fluctuated in surface area between 2 and 3 acres, but recently it has ...
Plum Orchard Lake Wildlife Management Area, is located near Pax, West Virginia in Fayette county. Located on 3,201 acres (1,295 ha) land that varies from wetlands to steeply forested woodlands, the Pleasant Creek WMA rises to an elevation of 1,600 feet (490 m).
The Dry Fork is a 39.1-mile-long (62.9 km) tributary of the Black Fork of the Cheat River in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA.Via the Black Fork, the Cheat, and the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Relocation to the Cheat River, 1753. In 1753 Samuel Eckerlin sold his land on the New River in Virginia to Gerhard (Garrett) Zinn and William Davis. Soon the Eckerlin brothers had reestablished themselves in a new community, referred to as Dunkard Bottom, on the Cheat River in what is now Preston County, West Virginia.
There were many evacuation orders after a false report that the Lake Lynn dam had burst, which is located along the Cheat River several miles south of Point Marion in extreme northern West Virginia. [7] [27] The dam, owned by West Penn Power , reached the highest levels in its 60-year history, prompting the company to open flood gates, [28 ...
Laurel Fork is a 37.8-mile-long (60.8 km) river in eastern West Virginia, USA. It is a tributary of the Dry Fork; via the Dry Fork, the Black Fork, and the Cheat, Monongahela and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 60 square miles (160 km 2) in the Allegheny Mountains.