Meadow Branch

Meadow Branch
Meadow Branch within Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area, downstream of the Sleepy Creek Lake impoundment, August 2016.
Meadow Branch is located in West Virginia
Meadow Branch
Location of the mouth of Meadow Branch in West Virginia
Meadow Branch is located in the United States
Meadow Branch
Meadow Branch (the United States)
Location
CountryUnited States
StateWest Virginia
CountiesBerkeley, Morgan
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationWest of Shanghai, Berkeley County
 • coordinates39°26′55″N 78°11′46″W / 39.44861°N 78.19611°W / 39.44861; -78.19611[1]
MouthSleepy Creek
 • location
Mount Trimble, Morgan County
 • coordinates
39°38′16″N 78°06′57″W / 39.63778°N 78.11583°W / 39.63778; -78.11583[1]
Length16.7 mi (26.9 km)
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • rightRoaring Run

Meadow Branch is a 16.7-mile-long (26.9 km)[2] tributary stream of Sleepy Creek in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle region. It passes through the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area, where it is dammed to form the 205-acre (0.83 km2) Sleepy Creek Lake.

  1. ^ a b "Meadow Branch". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed August 15, 2011