Kanawha River
The Kanawha River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 97 mi long, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The largest inland waterway in West Virginia, its watershed has been a significant industrial region of the state since early in the 19th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: tributary of Ohio River in West Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Big Conhaway River”, “Big Connawas River”, “Big Kanawha River”, “Canawha”, “Canhawa River”, “Chinidashhichetha”, “Chinodahichetha River”, “Chinodashichetha”, “Chinondaista”, “Great Canawha River”, “Great Kanawha River”, “Great Kanhawa River”, “Great Kanhaway River”, “Great Kehhawa River”, “Great Kenhawa River”, “Great Kenhaway River”, “Great Konhaway River”, “Great Konhawayriver”, “Kanahaway River”, “Kanawa River”, “Kanawah River”, “Kanaway River”, “Kanawhy River”, “Kanhaway River”, “Kannawha River”, “Keanawha River”, “Kenhaway River”, “Keninsheka”, “Kinhaway River”, “Kunhaway River”, “Le-we-ke-o-mi”, “New River”, “Pi-que-me-ta-mi”, “Pique-me-ta-nei”, “Wood’s River”, and “Woods River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tu-Endie-Wei Point Pleasant Battle Monument State Park and Silver Memorial Bridge.
Tu-Endie-Wei Point Pleasant Battle Monument State Park
Park
Photo: Bitmapped, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tu-Endie-Wei State Park is located at the confluence of the Kanawha River and the Ohio River in downtown Point Pleasant, West Virginia, United States. The park commemorates the Battle of Point Pleasant, fought between the settler militia of Virginia and the forces of Shawnee Chief Cornstalk on October 10, 1774.
Silver Memorial Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Scott Stewart, CC BY 2.0.
The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 that carried U.S. Route 35 over the Ohio River, connecting Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio.
Gallia–Meigs Regional Airport
Aerodrome
Gallia–Meigs Regional Airport is a publicly owned, public use airport located in Gallipolis, Ohio, United States. The airport is named after Gallia County and Meigs County.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kanauga and Point Pleasant.
Kanauga
Hamlet
Kanauga is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Gallia County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 185.
Point Pleasant
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Point Pleasant is a town of 4,637 people in West Virginia. These days it's best-known for a series of mysterious paranormal occurrences that began in 1966.
Gallipolis
Photo: Scott Stewart, CC BY 2.0.
Gallipolis is a village of 3,600 people in Gallia County, in Southeast Ohio. It is just across the Ohio River from Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The name Gallipolis is from the French for "city of the Gauls" because it was settled by a group of French pioneers known as the "French 500".
Kanawha River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Fayette, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Kanawha River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kanawha River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر كاناوا”
- Asturian: “Ríu Kanawha”
- Basque: “Kanawha ibaia”
- Catalan: “Kanawha”
- Cebuano: “Kanawha River”
- Chinese: “卡诺瓦河”
- Danish: “Kanawha River”
- Dutch: “Kanawha River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كاناوا”
- Esperanto: “Kanawha”
- French: “Kanawha”
- German: “Kanawha River”
- Hebrew: “קאנאווה”
- Irish: “Abhainn Kanawha”
- Japanese: “カナウハ川”
- Japanese: “カナワ川”
- Lithuanian: “Kanova (upė)”
- Lithuanian: “Kanova”
- Mingrelian: “კანოვა (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “კანოვა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanawha”
- Norwegian: “Kanawha”
- Polish: “Kanawha”
- Portuguese: “Rio Kanawha”
- Russian: “Канова (река)”
- Russian: “Канова”
- Slovenian: “Kanawha River”
- Slovenian: “Kanawha”
- Slovenian: “reka Kanawha”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاناوها چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Kanawha”
- Spanish: “Río Kanawha”
- Venetian: “Kanawha”
- Welsh: “Afon Kanawha”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Henderson and Gilmore Heights.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shadle Bridge and Bartow Jones Bridge.
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