Otterslide Creek

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Otterslide Creek is a stream in Ritchie County, West Virginia. [1] It is a tributary of the South Fork Hughes River. [2]

Otterslide Creek was so named on account of otters sliding there. [3] [4]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Otterslide Creek
  2. ↑ "Otterslide Creek At MP 0.5 (WVDEP_WQX-13677) site data in the Water Quality Portal". National Water Quality Monitoring Council. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
  3. ↑ Cox, William J. (Feb 22, 1979). "County placenames among most colorful, imaginative in country". The Pennsboro News. p. 2. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  4. ↑ 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. 465.

39°08′05″N80°55′44″W / 39.13472°N 80.92889°W / 39.13472; -80.92889


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