Sleepy Creek Lake is a 205-acre (0.8 km2) impoundment of the Meadow Branch of Sleepy Creek in Berkeley County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. The reservoir is located entirely within the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area.
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Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area is located in Morgan and Berkeley Counties in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. It encompasses 22,928 acres, mostly covered with mixed oak and pine forest, although about 3,500 acres are covered with mixed hardwoods. The 205-acre Sleepy Creek Lake is located entirely within the WMA.
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Stotlers Crossroads is a small unincorporated community hamlet in southeastern Morgan County, West Virginia. It is situated along Winchester Grade Road between the South and Middle Forks of Sleepy Creek on the eastern flanks of Highland Ridge.
The community was named after W. R. Stotler, a merchant at the namesake crossroads. Stotlers Crossroads is the location of several historic buildings, including the Mount Olivet United Methodist Church and Ambrose Chapel, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Stotlers Crossroads is a junction of Winchester Grade Road with the Virginia Line and Highland Ridge Roads.
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Sleepy Creek Mountain is a mountain ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians on the border between Morgan and Berkeley counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The long-distance Tuscarora Trail traverses the southern ridge and northern bench of the mountain.
Together with Third Hill Mountain to the east, the two mountains form a blind valley that contains Sleepy Creek Lake and the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area. Sleepy Creek and Third Hill Mountains are distinctive for their height in the relatively level terrain of the far Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.
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Third Hill Mountain is both the highest and most topographically prominent mountain in Berkeley County within the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Third Hill Mountain reaches its highest elevation of 2,165 feet above sea-level southeast of the "Locks-of-the-Mountain" where it "locks" with Sleepy Creek Mountain. The long distance Tuscarora Trail passes along ridge and bench of the mountain.
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Jones Springs is an unincorporated community in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. It is located on County Route 7 at its junction with County Route 7/8. The town, and several of its houses, are adjacent to the numerous springs that give the community its name.
Located near Jones Springs is the Stuckey House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.