Glady Fork

Geobox|River
name = Glady Fork

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image_caption = The Glady Fork in Randolph County in 2006
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country = United States
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state = West Virginia
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region = Randolph
region1 = Tucker
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length_imperial = 30
length_note = ["The American Rivers Outstanding Rivers List", Second Edition, May 1991. Compiled and edited by Matthew H. Huntington and John D. Echeverria. Washington, DC: American Rivers, Inc.]
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watershed_note =cite web |url= http://www.dep.state.wv.us/watershed/ |pages = [http://www.dep.state.wv.us/watershed/w5020004.html Cheat River] | title= Watershed Atlas Project | author= West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection | accessdate=2007-02-02]
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source_name = West Fork Glady Fork
source_location = Lynn Divide
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source_region = Randolph County
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source_long_m = 45
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source_long_EW = W
source_note = cite gnis|1553406|West Fork Glady Fork|1980-06-27|2008-09-13]
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source_elevation_imperial = 3154
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title = West Fork Glady Fork Source
work = Elevation Query
accessdate = 2008-09-13
publisher = U.S. Geological Survey]

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source1_location = Middle Mountain
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title = East Fork Glady Fork Source
work = Elevation Query
accessdate = 2008-09-13
publisher = U.S. Geological Survey]

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source_confluence_long_m = 43
source_confluence_long_s = 07
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source_confluence_elevation_imperial = 2841
mouth_name = Dry Fork
mouth_location = Gladwin
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The Glady Fork is a river, approximately 30 miles (48 km) long, in eastern West Virginia in the United States. It is a tributary of the Dry Fork; via the Dry Fork, the Black Fork, and the Cheat, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 64 square miles (166 km²) in the Allegheny Mountains. With the Dry Fork, the Laurel Fork, the Shavers Fork and the Blackwater River, it is considered to be one of the five principal headwaters tributaries of the Cheat River. [Julian, Norman. 2006. "Cheat River." "The West Virginia Encyclopedia". Ken Sullivan, editor. Charleston, WV: West Virginia Humanities Council. ISBN 0-9778498-0-5.] The stream was named for the presence of glades along the river. [cite book| author=Kenny, Hamill |title= West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains |year=1945 |publisher=The Place Name Press |location=Piedmont, West Virginia |pages= p.271]

It is formed at the community of Glady in Randolph County by the confluence of two short northward-flowing streams known as East Fork Glady Fork and West Fork Glady Fork; the forks flow from a ridge known as Lynn Divide [cite web |url=Gnis3|1551972 |title=Geographic Names Information System entry for Lynn Divide (Feature ID #1551972)|accessdate=2007-02-02] which separates the Cheat River watershed in Randolph County from the Greenbrier River watershed in Pocahontas County. From the confluence the Glady Fork flows north-northeastwardly in a meandering course between Middle Mountain and Shavers Mountain in the Monongahela National Forest, through eastern Randolph County into southern Tucker County, where it joins the Dry Fork at the community of Gladwin. [DeLorme (1997). "West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer". Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. pp. 37-38, 47. ISBN 0-89933-246-3.]

According to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, nearly 94% of the Glady Fork's watershed is forested, mostly deciduous. The lower half of the river's course is characterized by continuous Class 2 rapids, with Class 3 whitewater in the lowermost three-to-four miles (5-6 km). [cite book |last= Davidson |first= Paul |coauthors= Ward Eister, Dirk Davidson, Charlie Walbridge |title= Wildwater West Virginia |edition= 4th ed. |publisher= Menasha Ridge Press |location= Birmingham, Ala. |year= 1995 |isbn= 0-89732-156-1 |pages=p.85 ]

ee also

*List of West Virginia rivers

References