The Delaware (Lenape) Indian name for Cheat was reportedly Ach-sin-ha-nac, meaning "stony river". Upstream of its dam, the Cheat is one of the largest undammed watersheds in the eastern United States.Ĭheat Mountain, a high and rugged ridge, runs about 50 miles (80 km) southward from its northernmost tip, just a few miles west of the confluence at Parsons. It then flows for a short distance through southwestern Fayette County, Pennsylvania, before joining the Monongahela River at Point Marion, Pennsylvania. It then flows through an impressive gorge - Cheat Canyon - northeastwardly from Albright, collecting Big Sandy Creek before entering Monongalia County, where a hydro-electric dam just south of the Pennsylvania border causes it to widen as the Cheat Lake reservoir. (The "High Falls of Cheat" is a few miles upstream of Bemis on Shavers Fork.) From Parsons the Cheat River flows generally northward through Tucker and Preston counties, past the towns of Rowlesburg and Albright. Black Fork is fed by the Blackwater River and by the Dry, Glady, and Laurel Forks - these are traditionally referred to as the five Forks of Cheat.
The Cheat is formed at Parsons, West Virginia, by the confluence of Shavers Fork and Black Fork. Its headwaters are in the Cheat-Potomac Ranger District of the Monongahela National Forest. Owing to the ruggedness of the surrounding Allegheny Mountains, the Cheat remains largely remote with few settlements or developments along its banks. Via the Ohio River, the Cheat and Monongahela are part of the Mississippi River watershed. The Cheat River is a 78.3-mile-long (126.0 km) tributary of the Monongahela River in eastern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. Brannons Run, Clover Run, Upper Jonathan Run, Jonathan Run, Bull Run, Bearwallow Run, Licking Creek, Louse Camp Run, Ford Run, Muddy Run, Big Run, Keyser Run, Scott Run, Little Buffalo Creek, Buffalo Creek, Tray Run, Buckhorn Run, Pringle Run, Lick Run, Heather Run, Greens Run, Laurel Run, Hackelberry Run, Gum Run, Bull Run, Bee Run, Buzzard Run, Maple Run, Crammeys Runĭevils Dump Run, Wolf Run, Mill Run, Dry Run, Horseshoe Run, Dry Run, Minear Run, Clay Lick, Laurel Run, Tobes Run, Stave Run, Panther Run, Glades Run, Wolf Creek, Madison Run, Saltlick Creek, Hickory Bearpen Run, Bearwallow Run, Stamping Ground Run, Joes Run, Buffalo Run, Ashpole Run, Elsey Run, Daugherty Run, Roaring Creek, Muddy Creek, Beech Run, Conner Run, Gibson Run, Big Sandy Creek, Big Run, Christopher Run, Scott Run, Quarry Run, Kelley Run, Coles Run, Morgan Run, Rubles Run, Grassy Run
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