Tug Fork

The Tug Fork at Williamson

The Tug Fork in Matewan, West Virginia

The Tug Fork is 248 km long right- source river of the Big Sandy River in southwestern Virginia and West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky.

In the valley of the Tug Fork between the Pike County ( Kentucky ) and the Mingo County ( West Virginia), the Hatfield - McCoy feud took place in the 19th century.

The Tug Fork rises in the Appalachian Mountains in southern McDowell County in the U.S. state of West Virginia near the border with Virginia. He then meanders mainly northwest. 32 km northwest of Welch, West Virginia, he makes for 6.4 km the border between West Virginia and Virginia. On the rest of its course it forms the border between West Virginia ( east) and Kentucky ( West) until it forms together with the Levisa Fork River in Louisa on 166 m height the Big Sandy River.