Meadow Branch

Meadow Branch is a 16.7-mile-long (26.9 km)[2] tributary stream of Sleepy Creek in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle region. It passes through the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area, where it is dammed to form the 205-acre (0.83 km2) Sleepy Creek Lake.

Meadow Branch
Meadow Branch within Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area, downstream of the Sleepy Creek Lake impoundment, August 2016.
Location of the mouth of Meadow Branch in West Virginia
Meadow Branch (the United States)
Location
CountryUnited States
StateWest Virginia
CountiesBerkeley, Morgan
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationWest of Shanghai, Berkeley County
 • coordinates39°26′55″N 78°11′46″W[1]
MouthSleepy Creek
 • location
Mount Trimble, Morgan County
 • coordinates
39°38′16″N 78°06′57″W[1]
Length16.7 mi (26.9 km)
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • rightRoaring Run

Course

Meadow Branch's source lies between Sleepy Creek Mountain (1,905 feet [581 m]) and Third Hill Mountain (2,172 feet [662 m]) near Locks-of-the-Mountain in Berkeley County. Meadow Branch continues between the two mountains northward through the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area where it joins Roaring Run. Meadow Branch is dammed to form Sleepy Creek Lake, a 205-acre (0.83 km2) impoundment. The stream flows into Morgan County where it meanders through the steep valley created at the northern ends of both Sleepy Creek and Third Hill Mountains. From the valley, Meadow Branch parallels West Virginia Route 9 and empties into Sleepy Creek in Spruce Pine Hollow.

See also

References
  1. "Meadow Branch". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed August 15, 2011


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