Kettle Creek (South Fork South Branch Potomac River)
Coordinates: 38°47′50″N 79°06′35″W / 38.7973352°N 79.1097564°W / 38.7973352; -79.1097564
Kettle Creek is a 7.3-mile-long (11.7 km) tributary stream of the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in Hardy and Pendleton counties in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Kettle Creek rises on Mitchell Knob (2,717 feet) and flows north along the eastern flanks of Sweedlin Hill (2,303 feet) through Sweedlin Valley in the George Washington National Forest.
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