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CONDITIONS BY COUNTIES. 



tion. Hackers creek flows out at 1,070 feet and the Buckhan- 

 non river at 1,380 feet, making a difference of 310 feet in the 

 stream bed elevations on opposite sides of the district. The 

 drainage basins of Finks run in Buckhannon district, that of 

 portions of French creek with its Slab Camp fork and Bull run 

 tributaries in Meade district, and that of Cow run of Banks 

 district, are comparatively smooth. The principal bottom lands 

 of the county lie along the Buckhannon river from a little above 

 the town of Buckhannon to a distance of 6 or 7 miles below it. 

 Narrower bottoms are found along Turkey run. Finks run, 

 Brushy fork, Cutright run, French creek, Bull run, Slab Camp 

 fork and Cow run. There are level or rolling uplands in the 

 vicinities of Eock Cave, Frenchton, Hinkleville, and in several 

 other localities on both sides of the Buckhannon river in Meade, 

 Union and Washington districts. 



Geologists speak of a plain which once included this region 

 but which has now been elevated and tilted and furrowed by 

 streams until it is almost beyond recognition. Remnants of it 

 are found on the fiat-topped hills and ridges which lessen in 

 elevation from southeast to northwest. 



The areas drained by the upper Buckhannon river, as well 

 as those drained by the Middle Fork river on the east, and by 

 the Right and Left Forks of Little Kanawha on the south, are 

 principally high and rough. For several miles back from the 

 Randolph and Webster county lines the summits of the Upshur 

 hills rise from 2,000 to 2,500 feet, and in one place near Palace 

 Valley they reach an elevation of about 3,100 feet. 



The Buckhannon river flows north through the county 

 keeping a little east of its center. Its descent is rapid from 

 where it enters the area a short distance north of Arvondale 

 station to the village of Hampton, four miles above Buckhan- 

 non. From this point it flows slowly for a distance of 7 or 8 

 miles. A short distance from where it leaves the county it 

 again begins to flow rapidly toward the Tygarts Valley into 

 which it empties some 8 or 9 miles below. The principal eastern 

 tributaries of the Buckhannon are Left Fork, Panther Fork, 

 Tenmile creek, and Sand run. Its largest western tributaries 

 are Big run, French creek, Finks run, Turkey run and Pecks 

 run. The Middle Fork of Tygarts Valley drains a belt of land 



