Little Kanawha River Basin
The Little Kanawha rises in southern Upshur County, approximately 20 mi (32 km) south of Buckhannon. It follows a meandering course generally west-northwestwardly, through Lewis, Braxton, Gilmer, Calhoun, Wirt and Wood Counties, past the towns of Burnsville, Sand Fork, Glenville, Grantsville, Palestine and Elizabeth, to its mouth at the Ohio River in Parkersburg.[4]

About 3 mi (5 km) upstream of Burnsville[5], a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam causes the river to form Burnsville Lake, which was completed in 1976 at a cost of $56.2 million.[6]

Some of the featured rivers and streams of the Little Kanawha River Watershed are:
- Hughes River
- Goose Creek
- Bull River
- Right Fork Little Kanawha River
- West Fork Little Kanawha River