Cabin Creek is a tributary of the Kanawha River, long, in West Virginia in the United States. Via the Kanawha and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset, area data for Cabin Creek watershed, 10-digit Hydrologic Unit Code 0505000602. The National Map , retrieved 2013-11-14 in a coal mining region on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.
Description Cabin Creek begins in western Fayette County, approximately south-southwest of Coalfield. It flows in southern Kanawha County for most of its course, north-northwestward through the unincorporated communities of Republic, Carbon, Decota, Laing, Quarrier, Holly, Leewood, Eskdale, Ohley, Coal, Giles, Dawes, Miami, Sharon, Ronda, and Dry Branch, to the community of Cabin Creek, where it flows into the Kanawha River. The creek is paralleled by county roads for most of its course, and additionally by the West Virginia Turnpike from Giles to its mouth.The National Map , accessed 2013-11-15
Cabin Creek was named for a nearby pioneer's cabin which was raided by Native Americans in the 1740s.
Cabin Creek Strike
See also
List of rivers of West Virginia
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