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2 unusual facts about South Fork


Alvin Independent School District

AISD serves Pearland city's rapidly growing western portion of the city including the new large master-planned communities of Shadow Creek Ranch, South Fork, and Southern Trails.

South Fork, Colorado

In the 1983 movie National Lampoon's Vacation starring Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold, the Griswold family spend the night at a camping ground in South Fork.


Bob Artley

While in the Army in 1943, he met and married fellow lab technician and Women's Army Auxiliary Corps enlistee Virginia E. (Ginny) Moore, of South Fork, PA while they were both stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, MO.


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Anne W. Armstrong

In the 1940s, the Tennessee Valley Authority completed South Holston Dam, effectively inundating the Big Creek community, which straddled the South Fork Holston just upstream from the dam.

Caribou-Targhee National Forest

In Island Park is Big Springs (Idaho), a first-magnitude spring that is the source of the South Fork of Henrys Fork.

Giboney, Missouri

Giboney was situated just west of Brewer in Saline Township in the northwest part of Perry County, situated along the south Fork Saline Creek and state route NN.

Hoback River

The largest tributary of the Hoback River is its South Fork, which joins it near the town of Bondurant, where the river spreads onto a large marshy flat in a braided floodplain.

John B. Leonard

Chili Bar Bridge, spanning South Fork of American River at State Highway 193, Placerville vicinity, El Dorado, California, 1922

Lawrence's Goldfinch

There are only a few places where it has been observed to nest annually, notably the Carmel Valley and the South Fork Kern River.

Malheur River

At Riverside in eastern Malheur County it receives the South Fork Malheur River from the south, then turns sharply back northward to Juntura, where it receives the North Fork Malheur River form the north.

Oolenoy River

Approximately 37 miles in length, it empties into the South Fork Saluda River near the Pumpkintown Community.

Overall, Virginia

Overall Run, a tributary of the South Fork of the Shenandoah River, flows west to the river from Brush Mountain, a part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and an unnamed intermittent stream flows down Sandbank Hollow to join Overall Run a few hundred yards east of its mouth.

Payette River

Further east, the Deadwood River parallels the Middle Fork and empties into the South Fork just west of Lowman.

To the east of Banks, the South Fork's Canyon, west of Lowman, is a challenging Class IV run for rafting.

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

Platanthera yosemitensis

Platanthera yosemitensis (Yosemite Bog-orchid) is a species of orchid that is endemic to nine wet montane meadows between the main stem and the South Fork of the Merced River in Yosemite National Park.

Secesh River

The river begins at the confluence of Lake Creek and Summit Creek near the unincorporated community of Burgdorf and flows generally southeast, through Secesh Meadows and a series of canyons, emptying into the South Fork near Browns Camp.

Shinnecock

Shinnecock Canal, a canal that cuts across the South Fork of Long Island at Hampton Bays, New York

Silver Valley, Idaho

The narrow valley, about 40 miles (64 km) in length, comprises a number of small towns along the South Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River and Interstate 90 between Fourth of July Pass to the west and Lookout Pass on the Montana border.

South Fork Eel River

The steep terrain in the South Fork Eel's watershed is the result of continuous uplift along the San Andreas Fault, and coinciding with the erosion caused by the river and its tributaries, steep canyons and ridges, many with slopes of over 50 percent, were formed.

South Fork Trinity River

The second most recent of the terranes—dating to the Cretaceous—which is composed almost entirely of granite, brought with it a strip of mica that roughly aligns with the present course of the South Fork Trinity River.

Stites, Idaho

In the lower canyon of the South Fork of the Clearwater River, it is about four miles (6 km) upstream and south of Kooskia on State Highway 13.

Tyrrell County, North Carolina

The county is divided into five townships: Alligator, Columbia, Gum Neck, Scuppernong, and South Fork - which are all part of the IBX - Inner Banks.

Upper American River Project

The water then enters a penstock that feeds the Camino Powerhouse above Slab Creek Reservoir on the South Fork American River.