Otterslide Creek is a stream in Ritchie County, West Virginia.[1] It is a tributary of the South Fork Hughes River.[2]
Otterslide Creek was so named on account of otters sliding there.[3][4]
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edit- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Otterslide Creek
- ↑ "Otterslide Creek At MP 0.5 (WVDEP_WQX-13677) site data in the Water Quality Portal". National Water Quality Monitoring Council. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
- ↑ Cox, William J. (Feb 22, 1979). "County placenames among most colorful, imaginative in country". The Pennsboro News. p. 2. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 465.
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