Tygart Valley River

At the mouth of the Buckhannon River; the picture was taken along the B & O Railroad between Belington and Philippi

Map of the catchment area of the Monongahela River, the Tygart Valley River is highlighted

The Tygart Valley River in Elkins ( 2006)

Tygart River Lake with dam near Grafton, West Virginia. Looking south ( upstream )

The Tygart Valley River, sometimes referred to simply as Tygart River, is the true source of the river Monongahela River in the east -central part of West Virginia in the United States.

The 257 km long river is over Monongahela River and Ohio River portion of the watershed of the Mississippi River and drains an area of ​​3442 km ² in the Allegheny Mountains and the non- glacially formed part of the Allegheny Plateau.

Run

The Tygart Valley River rises in Pocahontas County in the Allegheny Mountains and flows generally north- northwestward through Randolph County, Barbour County, Taylor County and Marion County. It happened while the places Huttonsville, Mill Creek, Beverly, Elkins, Junior, Belington, Philippi, Arden and Grafton before forming at Fairmont with the West Fork River to the Monongahela River.

Below the Tygart Valley River Elkins squeezed into a valley between Rich Mountain and Laurel Mountain passes that are considered part of the western chain of the Allegheny Mountains, forming the border between the mountains and the Allegheny Plateau. The river receives its major tributary, the Buckhannon River and the Middle Fork River, in Barbour County between Belington and Philippi. Just above Grafton, the river is dammed since 1938 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, forming the Tygart Lake. Riverside stretched between Grafton and Fairmont the Valley Falls State Park.

Hydrology

The United States Geological Survey operates a level in Philippi. The local average annual runoff was 54 m³ / s The highest discharge rate during this period was estimated on 5 November 1985 to 1727 cubic meters, the lowest discharge value of 0.1 m³ / s was recorded on several days in October 1953.

Further upstream near Dailey in Randolph County, the average annual runoff volumes amounted 1915-2005 to 10 m³ / s The highest value was 564 m³ / s recorded on 17 May 1996. On several days in the autumn months of 1930 and 1953 an outflow value of zero was recorded.

History

The Tygart Valley was first settled by European settlers in 1753, when David Tygart ( named after the valley and river ) and Robert Files ( or Foyle ) with their families settled on separate courses in the area of present-day Beverly. Although there was no conflict between whites and Indians in the immediate area in the last time before that, discovered that summer, a pulling on the Shawnee Trail Indian tribe hut the Files family and killed seven family members. A son managed to escape and alerted the Tygarts who managed to escape. In today's Randolph County attempted until 1772, no other white settlers to settle in the area. It is not known certainly whether Tygart was among the 1772 low transmitting settlers.

The brothers John and Samuel Pringle, who had settled in 1761 on the Buckhannon River, a tributary of the Tygart Valley River in what is now Upshur County, acted as her contemporary Daniel Boone in Kentucky and conducted numerous immigrant settlers in the main valley, the lower land rich at the time was to wild and fertile land. Among the settlers of the 1770s and 1780s included the families Connelly, Hadden, Jackson, Nelson, Riffle, Stalnaker, Warwick, Westfall, Whiteman and Wilson.

Name Variants

The United States Board on Geographic Names has 1902 names Tygart River set for the watercourse, but this changed in 1950 in Tygart Valley River. According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Tygart Valley River historically had a number of other names:

• Muddy River
• Tagret Valley River
• Tigar Valley Fork
• Tigar Valley River
• Tigarts Valley River
• Tiger Valley River
• Tiger Valley River
• Tigris River Valley

• Tygars Valley
• Tygars Valley River
• Tygart River
• Tygart 's River
• Tygart 's Valley River
• Tygarts Valley River
• Tygarts Valley River
• Tyger Valley Fork

• Tyger Valley River
• Tygers Valley
• Tygers Valley River
• Tygerts River
• Tygerts Valley River
• Tygharts Valley River
• Valley River