Roaring Creek (Tygart Valley River tributary)

Not to be confused with Roaring Creek in adjacent Pendleton County, a tributary of Seneca Creek and the Potomac River.

Roaring Creek is a stream in Randolph County in the U.S. state of West Virginia.[1] It is a tributary of the Tygart Valley, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers. It rises on the western slopes of Rich Mountain and flows for approximately 13 miles to join the Tygart about 2 miles downstream of Aggregates and 4 miles downstream of Elkins.

Roaring Creek was descriptively named on account of its audibly turbulent waters.[2] At suitable water levels the 5 miles from Coalton to the confluence with the Tygart is a class III to V whitewater run.[3]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Roaring Creek (Tygart Valley River tributary)
  2. ^ 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. 535.
  3. ^ American Whitewater River Tools, retrieved 2019-12-18