Beech Fork Lake

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lake_name = Beech Fork Lake
image_lake = Beech Fork State Park Lake.jpg
caption_lake = Beech Fork State Park is built around the backwaters of the lake
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location = Wayne County, West Virginia
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type = reservoir
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Beech Fork Lake is a 720 acre (2.9 km²) lake located near Lavalette in Wayne County, West Virginia. Beech Fork Lake is also partly located in neighboring Cabell County. Millers Fork and Stowers Branch join Beech Fork with their own river valleys contributing to the majority of the lakesurface of Beech Fork Lake. These streams are tributaries of Twelvepole Creek.

Beech Fork Lake as a flood control impoundment was authorized by the Flood Control Act of October 23, 1962 and was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the mid-1970s. The lake was completed and dedicated in May 1978.

See also

*Beech Fork State Park

External links

* [http://www.beechforksp.com/ Beech Fork State Park]
* [http://www.lrh.usace.army.mil/projects/lakes/BBF/index.cfm U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Beech Fork Website]
* [http://hometown.aol.com/ronbushwv/ Friends of the Beech Fork Lake Community]