Elkhorn Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map , accessed June 13, 2011 tributary of the Tug Fork, belonging to the Ohio River and Mississippi River watersheds. It is located in McDowell and Mercer counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Elkhorn Creek is also known as Elkhorn Fork and Elkhorn River.
According to tradition, Elkhorn Creek was named after an incident when a pioneer hunter displayed an elk's horn near the creek's mouth.
Tributaries Tributary streams are listed from source to mouth.
Angle Hollow Turkey Gap Branch Johns Knob Branch Lick Branch Trace Branch North Fork Elkhorn Creek Bearwallow Branch Buzzard Branch Burk Creek Clark Branch Coalbank Branch Big Branch Bottom Creek Rockhouse Branch Laurel Branch Upper Belcher Branch Lick Branch Meetinghouse Branch Mill Creek
List of cities and towns along Elkhorn Creek Big Four Bottom Creek Eckman Elkhorn Ennis Keystone Kimball Kyle Landgraff Maitland Maybeury Northfork Powhatan Superior Switchback Upland Vivian Welch
See also List of West Virginia rivers
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