Bearwallow Creek
river in the United States of America
Bearwallow Creek is a 4.3-mile-long (6.9 km) tributary stream of Tearcoat Creek, itself a tributary of the North River, making it a part of the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay watersheds. Bearwallow Creek is located in Hampshire County, West Virginia. It rises on Chestnut Oak Ridge, from which it flows southwest along the ridge's eastern flanks and then begins its course southeast along Bear Wallow Hollow Road (County Route 50/14) and U.S. Route 50 until its confluence with Tearcoat Creek at Pleasant Dale.
“Bearwallow Creek” enters the record as river in the United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bearwallow, Creek and river can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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