Turtle Creek (West Virginia)

Turtle Creek is a stream in Boone County, West Virginia, in the United States.[1]

Turtle Creek was so named from rock formations in the shape of turtle which occur on the river bed.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Turtle Creek (West Virginia)
  2. ↑ Chisholm, James L.; Downs, Sanford C. (1978). Stress and Recovery of Aquatic Organisms as Related to Highway Construction Along Turtle Creek, Boone County, West Virginia: Prepared in Cooperation with the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 2.


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