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Cabin Creek (West Virginia)

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- location
  
Cabin Creek

Basin area
  
189.1 kmĀ²

Mouth
  
Kanawha River

Length
  
37 km

Source elevation
  
704 m

Country
  
United States of America

Cabin Creek (West Virginia)

- location
  
south-southwest of Coalfield

Cabin Creek is a tributary of the Kanawha River, 22.7 miles (36.5 km) long, in West Virginia in the United States. Via the Kanawha and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 72.6 square miles (188 km2) in a coal mining region on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.

Map of Cabin Creek, 1, WV, USA

Cabin Creek begins in western Fayette County, approximately 2.2 miles (3.5 km) south-southwest of Coalfield. It flows in southern Kanawha County for most of its course, north-northwestward through the unincorporated communities of Republic, Carbon, Decota, Laing, Quarrier, Holly, Leewood, Eskdale, Ohley, Coal, Giles, Dawes, Miami, Sharon, Ronda, and Dry Branch, to the community of Cabin Creek, where it flows into the Kanawha River. The creek is paralleled by county roads for most of its course, and additionally by the West Virginia Turnpike from Giles to its mouth.

Cabin Creek was named for a nearby pioneer's cabin which was raided by Indians in the 1740s.

References

Cabin Creek (West Virginia) Wikipedia