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New River

river in Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina in the United States
River Q952823
New River
A.E. Crane, National Scenic Byways Online · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
river
Inception
1975[6]
Native label
New River[17]

Location

Country
United States[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 36.546°, -81.353°, 🗺️ 38.162°, -81.196°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina[1][2][3]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata Virginia · West Virginia · North Carolina GNIS (USGS) Fayette County edition 2026-09-26 · us-gov-usgs-pd ↗

Population and size

Length
515 km[19]
More facts +7
Different from
New River[18]
Discharge
247 m³/s[21]
Drainage basin
Kanawha River drainage basin[23]
Located in protected area
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve[22]
Mouth of the watercourse
Kanawha River[5]
Tributary
Bluestone River, Greenbrier River, East River, Glade Creek, Indian Creek, Little River, North Fork New River, South Fork New River, Stroubles Creek, Rush Run[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
Watershed area
17,319 km²[20]
🏷️ Also known as
en New River en-gb New River (Kanawha River tributary) fr New fr New River he ניו ריבר ja ニュー川 ru Нью-Ривер (приток Кановы) zh 新河 zh-hant 牛河
🔖 Identifiers · 13
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85091393
E-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia ID
1637
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/New-River
Freebase ID
/m/02k4ln
GNIS Feature ID
1552301
GeoNames ID
4816545
Interlingual Index ID
i85865
J9U entity ID
987007529296705171
Natural Atlas ID
948005
OpenStreetMap relation ID
9505158
Topic's main category
Category:New River (Kanawha River tributary)
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
09393079-n
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Yale LUX ID
place/6484388d-74f5-42f8-a3cb-faf9415f5478
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
199 m 2026-09-26 H/STM · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
← Located in or next to body of water 4
Hinton, Fayetteville, Rich Creek, Thurmond
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
New River
Instance of 1
river
Located in protected area 1
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve
Mouth of the watercourse 1
Kanawha River
Tributary 1
Greenbrier River
← Crosses 1
New River Gorge Bridge
← Different from 1
New River
← Mouth of the watercourse 1
Greenbrier River
← Tributary 1
Kanawha River
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Related Entities

North Carolina United States Virginia West Virginia

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  1. 10h ago · Dev Jadiya · 2026-11-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Drainage basin → Kanawha River drainage basin
    Mouth of the watercourse → Kanawha River
    Instance of → river
    Inception → 1975
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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