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'''Hackers Creek''' is a [[tributary]] of the [[West Fork River]], {{convert|25.4|mi|km}} long,<ref name=EPA>{{cite web |url=http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_watershed.control?p_state=WV&p_huc=05020002&p_cycle=2008&p_report_type= |title=Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental Results: Assessment Summary for Reporting Year 2008, West Virginia, West Fork Watershed |author=United States Environmental Protection Agency |authorlink=United States Environmental Protection Agency |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/62PvHOaFR |archivedate=2011-10-13 |accessdate=2011-10-13}}</ref> in north-central [[West Virginia]] in the [[United States]].  Via the West Fork, [[Monongahela River|Monongahela]] and [[Ohio River|Ohio]] Rivers, it is part of the [[drainage basin|watershed]] of the [[Mississippi River]], draining an area of {{convert|58|sqmi|km2}}<ref name=WVDEP>{{cite web |url= http://www.dep.state.wv.us/watershed/ |pages = [http://web.archive.org/web/20060523112232/www.dep.state.wv.us/watershed/w5020002.html West Fork River] | title= Watershed Atlas Project. | author= West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection | accessdate=2007-02-26 |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20050404165853/www.dep.state.wv.us/watershed/ |archivedate=2006-05-07}}</ref> on the [[glaciation|unglaciated]] portion of the [[Allegheny Plateau]].  The stream is believed to have been named for a [[settler]] named John Hacker, who lived near the creek for over twenty years beginning around 1770, and was said to have been able to "read but not write; and yet he was a [[magistrate]] and a [[patriarch]] in the settlement."<ref>{{cite book| author=Kenny, Hamill |title= West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains |year=1945 |publisher=The Place Name Press |location=Piedmont, West Virginia |pages= 291}}</ref>

Hackers Creek rises approximately {{convert|5|mi|km}} north of [[Buckhannon, West Virginia|Buckhannon]] in northern [[Upshur County, West Virginia|Upshur County]] and flows westwardly into northeastern [[Lewis County, West Virginia|Lewis County]], where it turns northwestwardly and flows through the town of [[Jane Lew, West Virginia|Jane Lew]] into southern [[Harrison County, West Virginia|Harrison County]], where it joins the West Fork River from the southeast, approximately three miles (5&nbsp;km) northwest of Jane Lew.<ref>[[DeLorme]] (1997).  ''West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer''.  Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme.  p.36.  ISBN 0-89933-246-3.</ref>

According to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, approximately 69% of the Hackers Creek watershed is [[forest]]ed, mostly [[deciduous]].  Approximately 28% is used for pasture and agriculture, and less than 1% is urban.<ref name=WVDEP/>

==Variant spellings==
According to the [[Geographic Names Information System]], Hackers Creek has also been known historically as:<ref name=GNIS/>
*Hacker's Creek
*Hackers Crick
*Heackers Creek
*Heckers Creek

N.B.: Neighboring [[Barbour County, West Virginia]], also has a Hacker's Creek, a tributary of the [[Tygart Valley River]], about 3 miles downstream from [[Philippi, West Virginia|Philippi]].

==See also==
*[[List of West Virginia rivers]]

== Einzelnachweise ==
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