Tye River
The Tye River is a 35.4-mile-long tributary of the James River in central Virginia in the United States. Originating on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Nelson County, and fed by the Piney and Buffalo rivers, by way of the James River it is part of the watershed of the Chesapeake Bay.
- Type: River
- Description: river in Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Buffalo River”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Norwood and Buffalo Springs.
Norwood
Hamlet
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.Buffalo Springs
Hamlet
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.Greenway
Hamlet
Greenway is an unincorporated community in Nelson County in the U.S. state of Virginia located 90 miles west of the state capital, Richmond.
Tye River
- Category: body of water
- Location: Nelson, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.64025° or 37° 38′ 25″ north
Longitude
-78.83481° or 78° 50′ 5″ west
Elevation
351 feet (107 metres)
Open location code
8793J5R8+43
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=river
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Tye River” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Tye”
- Cebuano: “Tye River”
- Dutch: “Tye River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تى”
- German: “Tye River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Tye”
- Venetian: “Tye”
- Welsh: “Afon Tye”
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