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The Levisa Fork
River (also called simply Levisa or the Levisa Fork
of the Big Sandy River) is a tributary of the Big
Sandy River, approximately 164 miles (264 km) long,
in southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky in the
United States.
It rises in the
Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia, in
eastern Buchanan County, near Grundy. It flows west
into Pike County, Kentucky, where it receives the
Russell Fork River and is impounded to form Fishtrap
Lake Resevoir, then northwest past Pikesville and
Prestonsburg. At Paintsville it turns to the NNE,
flowing through Johnson and Lawrence Counties. It
joins the Tug Fork from the southwest at Louisa on
the West Virginia state line to form the Big Sandy.
The river is
partly navigable for commercial purposes through a
series of locks. During the 1890-1910 period, no
less than eighty-eight steamboats operated on the
Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy. |
