Glady Fork

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Field	Value
name	Glady Fork
image	Glady Fork.jpg
image_size	290
image_caption	The Glady Fork in Randolph County in 2006
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	United States
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	West Virginia
subdivision_type3	Counties
subdivision_name3	Randolph, Tucker
length_mi	32
length_ref
source1	West Fork Glady Fork
source1_location	Lynn Divide, Randolph County
source1_coordinates
source1_elevation	3154 ft
url	https://gisdata.usgs.gov/xmlwebservices2/elevation_service.asmx/getElevation?X_Value=-79.765616&Y_Value=38.7356671&Elevation_Units=FEET&Source_Layer=-1&Elevation_Only=FALSE
title	West Fork Glady Fork Source
work	Elevation Query
accessdate	2008-09-13
publisher	U.S. Geological Survey
source2	East Fork Glady Fork
source2_location	Middle Mountain, Randolph County, WV
source2_coordinates
source2_elevation	3707 ft
url	https://gisdata.usgs.gov/xmlwebservices2/elevation_service.asmx/getElevation?X_Value=-79.7347809&Y_Value=38.7134457&Elevation_Units=FEET&Source_Layer=-1&Elevation_Only=FALSE
title	East Fork Glady Fork Source
work	Elevation Query
accessdate	2008-09-13
publisher	U.S. Geological Survey
source_confluence_location	Glady, WV
source_confluence_coordinates
source_confluence_elevation	2841 ft
mouth	Dry Fork
mouth_location	Gladwin, WV
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation	1946 ft
basin_size_mi2	64
basin_size_ref
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Glady Fork is a 31.9 mi river in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. It is considered one of the five principal headwaters tributaries of the Cheat River — known as the Forks of Cheat.

Geography

The Glady Fork 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 64 sqmi in the Allegheny Mountains. With the Dry Fork, the Laurel Fork, the Shavers Fork and the Blackwater River, it is considered one of the five principal headwaters tributaries of the Cheat. The stream was named for the presence of glades along the river.

The Glady Fork is formed at the community of Glady in Randolph County by the confluence of two short northward-flowing streams known as East Fork Glady Fork and West Fork Glady Fork; the forks flow from a ridge known as Lynn Divide which separates the Cheat River watershed in Randolph County from the Greenbrier River watershed in Pocahontas County. From the confluence the Glady Fork flows north-northeastwardly in a meandering course between Middle Mountain and Shavers Mountain in the Monongahela National Forest, through eastern Randolph County into southern Tucker County, where it joins the Dry Fork at the community of Gladwin.

According to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, nearly 94% of the Glady Fork's watershed is forested, mostly deciduous.

References

References

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2. West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. "Watershed Atlas Project".
3. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map] {{webarchive. link. (2012-03-29 , accessed August 15, 2011)
4. Julian, Norman. 2006. "Cheat River." ''The West Virginia Encyclopedia''. Ken Sullivan, editor. Charleston, WV: West Virginia Humanities Council. {{ISBN. 0-9778498-0-5.
5. Kenny, Hamill. (1945). "West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains". The Place Name Press.
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8. "Geographic Names Information System entry for Lynn Divide (Feature ID #1551972)".
9. [[DeLorme]] (1997). ''West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer''. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. pp. 37-38, 47. {{ISBN. 0-89933-246-3.
10. Davidson, Paul. (1995). "Wildwater West Virginia". Menasha Ridge Press.

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