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unusual facts about North Fork


Drayton Valley Power

This facility is constructed of equipment that was originally located at North Fork, California.


Mountain City Ranger District

The district encompasses the northern portion of the Independence Mountains, the majority of the Bull Run Mountains, the Bruneau Range, the Wild Horse Range and the Copper Mountains along with the headwaters of the North Fork of the Humboldt River.

North Fork of Long Island AVA

Authored by winemaker Richard Olsen-Harbich in 1985, it includes the entire North Fork of Long Island and the townships of Riverhead, Shelter Island, and Southold.

Red River of the South

Near Elmer, Oklahoma, the North Fork finally joins, and the river proceeds to follow a winding course east through one of the most arid parts of the Great Plains, receiving the Wichita River

Specialists debate whether the North Fork or the Prairie Dog Town Fork is the true stem.

South Fork Flathead River

After it leaves the dam, the river enters a narrow gorge and, exiting the canyon for the final time, runs northwest past the town of Hungry Horse, then joins the Flathead River, just a few miles below its headwaters at the North Fork and Middle Forks' convergence.


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Battle of the North Fork of the Red River

The Battle of North Fork or the Battle of the North Fork of the Red River occurred on September 28, 1872, near McClellan Creek in Gray County, Texas, United States.

Colfax, California

Bunch Creek is an active water source flowing south to eventually confluence with the North Fork of the American River.

Foresthill Bridge

The bridge spans the North Fork of the American River in Placer County between the city of Auburn and the town of Foresthill in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

Foster, Indiana

The Vermilion Valley Railroad (originally the New York Central Railroad) passes through Fowler, and the north fork of Spring Creek flows along its western edge.

Glacier Peak

Subsequently the mudflows drained into both the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River (at that time an outlet of the Sauk River) and Skagit Rivers.

Ichthyornis

Ichthyornis was first discovered in 1870 by Benjamin Franklin Mudge, a professor from Kansas State Agricultural College who recovered the initial fossils from the North Fork of the Solomon River in Kansas, USA.

Jarbidge, Nevada

From Elko, the easiest access is by proceeding 55 miles north along Nevada State Route 225, then 21 miles east along Elko County Road 746, the North Fork-Charleston Road (signed for Charleston and Jarbidge), and finally 28 miles north along Elko County Road 748, the Jarbidge-Charleston Road.

Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge

The refuge is located along the North Fork of the Solomon River in the region where tallgrass prairie meets shortgrass prairie on the Great Plains.

Lynch River

It rises at the unincorporated community of Mission Home near the boundary of Shenandoah National Park and flows southeast past Shady Grove and Nortonsville to join the Roach River, forming the North Fork of the Rivanna at their confluence.

McDonalds Mill, Virginia

The current owners, Ned and Janet Yost, want to preserve the mill and the land around it so that others can get a glimpse of life on the North Fork of the Roanoke River as it was when the region was first occupied by immigrants from the British Isles.

North Fork Cache la Poudre River

The valley of the North Fork was historically used a trail route between the Colorado Piedmont and the Laramie Plains, including the Cherokee Trail and the Overland Trail.

Payette River

Logging helped to spur even more people to move into the area, and in 1911, the Idaho Northern Railroad was constructed by the OSL, running from Emmett near the mouth of the Payette along the river, past present-day Black Canyon Reservoir, up into the North Fork watershed and ending just below Long Valley at Smith's Ferry on the river, named for a settler who bought the operation in 1891.

Peconic

Great Peconic Bay, the body of water between the North Fork and the South Fork of Long Island, New York

Peconic Bay, two bodies of water between the North Fork and the South Fork of Long Island, New York

Polebridge, Montana

This community is named for the log bridge that formerly connected the North Fork Road in Glacier National Park to Montana Secondary Highway 486, over the North Fork Flathead River.

Siuslaw High School

The area's student population comes from a large geographic region, with students coming from the north at Sea Lion Caves, east to Tiernan up the North Fork of the Siuslaw River, south to the county line and all points east of Woahink and Siltcoos lakes (Canary).

Skykomish River

Shortly before converging with the North Fork the river drops over Eagle Falls, followed by Canyon Falls and then, finally, Sunset Falls before its confluence with the North Fork.

Sloan Creek

According to Fred Beckey, Cadet Creek is larger than Sloan Creek and could be equally considered the head of the Sauk River as the North Fork itself.

Toutle River

It was further altered by dredging to remove sediment and by construction of the Sediment Retention Structure on the river's north fork.

Virgin spinedace

Populations are known at various locations in the Virgin River system, including the North Fork and East Fork of the Virgin River in Zion National Park, the Santa Clara River, Beaver Dam Creek, and Ash Creek.