Kanawha may refer to:
Places Kanawha River in West Virginia, joining the Ohio River at Point Pleasant Kanawha Falls, a waterfall on the Kanawha River Kanawha Falls, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fayette County near the waterfall Kanawha River Valley AVA, West Virginia wine region Little Kanawha River in West Virginia, joining the Ohio River at Parkersburg Kanawha, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Wood County near Parkersburg Kanawha County, West Virginia Kanawha County textbook controversy, a violent school control struggle beginning in 1974 State of Kanawha, an early name for the state of West Virginia Kanawha Canal, part of the James River and Kanawha Canal, a partially built canal in Richmond, VA Kanawha (Luray, Virginia), a historic house Kanawha, Iowa, city
Railroad Kanawha, a type 2-8-4 railroad steam locomotive
Ships Kanawha (1899), a steam yacht owned by Henry H. Rogers USS Kanawha or USNS Kanawha has been the name of seven ships of the United States Navy USS Kanawha II (SP-130), a yacht which served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919 and was renamed USS Piqua (SP-130) in 1918. The United States Coast Guard Cutter Kanawha, a buoy tender in Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Other uses Kanawha, a solar deity in Seneca mythology Kanawha Valley people, an ancient indigenous people who lived in what is now West Virginia Kanawha saltworks, or Kanawha salines, a chain of salt wells and furnaces active in the 19th century along the Kanawha River "Kanawha", a song by rock band Seam from the album The Pace Is Glacial