Mount Storm 📍

Mount Storm is an unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. Mount Storm lies on the Northwestern Turnpike at its junction with West Virginia Route 42.

Mount Storm Lake – also known as New Stony River Reservoir – is a 1,200 acres (4.9 km2) reservoir created in 1965 on the Stony River in Grant County, West Virginia.

Mount Storm Lake serves as a cooling pond for the Dominion 1.6 gigawatt Mount Storm Power Station, which provides electricity to more than two million customers in Northern Virginia. The reservoir stands at an altitude of 3,244 feet (989 m).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Storm_Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Storm_Power_Station

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Terrain Map: New York and New England Terrian
SVGZ Graphic: Average High Temperature, 1991-2020

Coal Country

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Heading through Northern West Viriginia Coal Country, not too far from the Mount Storm Power Plant.

Monday October 14, 2019 — Mount Storm
Map: Sliding Rock Falls at Hannacroix Ravine Preserve on Cass Hill Road
Thematic Map: Fifty Least Densely Populated Municipalities in NY State

Before Mount Storm Lake

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The Davis and Cumberland Topographic Maps of 1921 show what area was like before the Mount Storm Coal Fired Power Plant and the Mount Storm Reservoir. The area was mostly wilderness, with a smaller now defunct reservoir further upstream.
Map: Tug Hill State Forest (Inman Gulf Area)