Lunice Creek
Lunice Creekis a 7.3-mile-long (11.7 km)[1]tributaryof theSouth Branch Potomac River,belonging to thePotomac RiverandChesapeake Baywatersheds.[2]The creek is located inGrant County,West Virginia.Lunice Creek is created by its North and South Forks and empties into the South Branch atPetersburg.
The creek's name most likely is a corruption of Looney('s), the name of an early soldier or settler.[3]
Tributaries
[edit]Tributary streams are listed in order from north to south.
- North Fork Lunice Creek
- Saltblock Run
- Shell Run
- Opossum Hollow Run
- South Fork Lunice Creek
- Big Star Run
- Little Star Run
- Bodkins Run
- Big Star Run
- Brushy Run
- Norman Run
- Robinson Run
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data.The National MapArchived2012-03-29 at theWayback Machine,accessed August 15, 2011
- ^U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lunice Creek
- ^Kenny, Hamill (1945).West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains.Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 389.
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