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Hackers Creek is a tributary of the West Fork River, Vorlage:Convert long,[1] in north-central West Virginia in the United States. Via the West Fork, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of Vorlage:Convert[2] on the 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."[3]
Hackers Creek rises approximately Vorlage:Convert north of Buckhannon in northern Upshur County and flows westwardly into northeastern Lewis County, where it turns northwestwardly and flows through the town of Jane Lew into southern Harrison County, where it joins the West Fork River from the southeast, approximately three miles (5 km) northwest of Jane Lew.[4]
According to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, approximately 69% of the Hackers Creek watershed is forested, mostly deciduous. Approximately 28% is used for pasture and agriculture, and less than 1% is urban.[2]
Variant spellings
According to the Geographic Names Information System, Hackers Creek has also been known historically as:[5]
- 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.
See also
Einzelnachweise
- ↑ United States Environmental Protection Agency: Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental Results: Assessment Summary for Reporting Year 2008, West Virginia, West Fork Watershed. Archiviert vom Original am 13. Oktober 2011. Abgerufen am 13. Oktober 2011.
- ↑ a b West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection: Watershed Atlas Project.. S. West Fork River. Archiviert vom Original am 7. Mai 2006. Abgerufen am 26. Februar 2007.
- ↑ Kenny, Hamill: West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. The Place Name Press, Piedmont, West Virginia 1945, S. 291.
- ↑ DeLorme (1997). West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. p.36. ISBN 0-89933-246-3.
- ↑ Referenzfehler: Ungültiges
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