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The Roanoke River is also known as the Staunton River for 80 miles between Smith Mountain Lake and convergence with the Dan River at Kerr Lake. The river is impounded in six locations. The first is the Niagara Dam just south of the City of Roanoke in Roanoke County adjacent to the town of Vinton.
- Roanoke River Light
History. References. External links. Roanoke River Light....
- Roanoke River Light
O rio Roanoke (em inglês: Roanoke River) é um curso de água que banha os estados norte-americanos de Virgínia e Carolina do Norte. [1] É formado pela confluência de outros rios na Virgínia Ocidental, fluindo para sudeste ao longo de 660 km de trajecto até ao Albemarle Sound, na costa atlântica da Carolina do Norte. [2]
It is located in Southwest Virginia along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains. Roanoke is approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of the Virginia– North Carolina border and 250 miles (400 km) southwest of Washington, D.C ., along Interstate 81.
Roanoke River, river rising in the Appalachian Valley in Montgomery County, southwestern Virginia, U.S., and flowing in a southeasterly direction for 380 mi (612 km) into Albemarle Sound, on the Atlantic coast of North Carolina. It drains an area of 9,580 sq mi (24,810 sq km).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Roanoke River runs 410 miles (660 km) long through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States. A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains southeast across the Piedmont to Albemarle Sound.
O rio Roanoke (em inglês: Roanoke River) é um curso de água que banha os estados norte-americanos de Virgínia e Carolina do Norte. [1] É formado pela confluência de outros rios na Virgínia Ocidental, fluindo para sudeste ao longo de 660 km de trajecto até ao Albemarle Sound, na costa atlântica da Carolina do Norte. [2]
History. References. External links. Roanoke River Light. Coordinates: 36.056029°N 76.610905°W. The Roanoke River Lighthouse is a historic, decommissioned lighthouse, located on the waterfront of Edenton, North Carolina. The lighthouse once stood in Albemarle Sound at the mouth of the Roanoke River, across the Sound from its current location.
