West Virginia Geography

West Virginia Geography
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West Virginia Geography
Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley is a significant historical and geographical landmark in West Virginia. The valley is located between the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains which is then divided by the Massanutten Mountain. The valley is twenty miles wide with a length of an estimated 140 miles. Thus the valley covers a total area of 2600 square miles that has considerable variations in elevation. The northwestern border of Shenandoah Valley is North Mountain which the main scope of the Allegheny Mountains while Blue Ridge on the southeast. It isolates the Valley from the Piedmont locale and the eastern Virginia beachfront plain. The separation from Washington to the Blue Ridge at Snickers Gap is an approximated fifty-five miles while from Richmond to the Blue Ridge is an estimated hundred miles. At its amplest, the Valley is over twenty-five miles. From the Northern part of the Potomac River, the Valley proceeds into Pennsylvania and Maryland with a parallel design, where it is known as the “Cumberland Valley,” and the Blue Ridge is named “South Mountain” (Suter, 2012).
The Shenandoah Valley includes two significant regions in West Virginia, Jefferson, and Berkeley. These areas constitute the seven districts in Virginia which include Augusta, Clarke, Frederick, Shenandoah, Rockingham, page, and Warren. Good country County, on the other hand, has been related to thi…