Hackers Creek

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Coordinates: 39°08′53″N 80°26′04″W / 39.14806, -80.43444
Hackers Creek
River
none Hackers Creek in Jane Lew in 2006
Hackers Creek in Jane Lew in 2006
Country Flag of the United States United States
State Flag of West Virginia West Virginia
Counties Upshur, Lewis, Harrison
Source
 - location Upshur County, West Virginia
 - elevation 1,367 ft (417 m) [1]
 - coordinates 39°03′29″N 80°12′32″W / 39.05806, -80.20889 [2]
Mouth West Fork River
 - location Harrison County, West Virginia
 - elevation 984 ft (300 m) [2]
 - coordinates 39°08′53″N 80°26′04″W / 39.14806, -80.43444 [2]
Basin 58 sq mi (150 km²) [3]

Hackers Creek is a tributary of the West Fork River in north-central West Virginia in the United States. Via the West Fork, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 58 square miles (150 km²) on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau. The stream is believed to have been named for a settler named John Hacker, who lived near the creek for over twenty years beginning around 1770, and was said to have been able to "read but not write; and yet he was a magistrate and a patriarch in the settlement."[4]

Hackers Creek rises approximately five miles (8 km) north of Buckhannon in northern Upshur County and flows westwardly into northeastern Lewis County, where it turns northwestwardly and flows through the town of Jane Lew into southern Harrison County, where it joins the West Fork River from the southeast, approximately three miles (5 km) northwest of Jane Lew.[5]

According to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, approximately 69% of the Hackers Creek watershed is forested, mostly deciduous. Approximately 28% is used for pasture and agriculture, and less than 1% is urban.[3]

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According to the Geographic Names Information System, Hackers Creek has also been known historically as:[2]

  • Hacker's Creek
  • Hackers Crick
  • Heackers Creek
  • Heckers Creek

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Google Earth elevation for GNIS source coordinates. Retrieved on 2007-02-19.
  2. ^ a b c d Geographic Names Information System. Geographic Names Information System entry for Hackers Creek (Feature ID #1539819). Retrieved on 2007-02-19.
  3. ^ a b West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. Watershed Atlas Project. West Fork River. Archived from the original on 2006-05-07. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.
  4. ^ Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, West Virginia: The Place Name Press, p.291. 
  5. ^ DeLorme (1997). West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. p.36. ISBN 0-89933-246-3.