Powhite Creek

Powhite Creek

Powhite Creek is located near the unincorporated community of Bon Air in Chesterfield County and flows into the independent city of Richmond in central Virginia. The creek empties into the James River in the region of the fall line, where the rapids of the river are located upstream from the head of navigation.

The name is pronounced "POW-hite," Fact|date=April 2008 in the same manner as you pronounce "Powhatan" and "Powder." References to the creek by this name have been found in records more than 300 years old, and the creek probably was named by Native Americans who were in the area long before settlers arrived in the Virginia Colony in the early 17th century.

The nearby Powhite Parkway of the Richmond Metropolitan Authority (RMA) was named for the creek. The toll road (Virginia State Route 76) crosses over the creek and under the Norfolk Southern Railway near the former unincorporated town of Granite. About a mile north, the toll road crosses the river on a bridge just downstream from the mouth of the creek.


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