The James at Percival's Island Riverwalk in Lynchburg, Virginia
The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County 348 miles (560 km)[3] to the Chesapeake Bay.[4] The river length extends to 444 miles (715 km) if the Jackson River is included, the longer of its two headwaters.[3] It is the longest river in Virginia. Jamestown and Williamsburg, Virginia's first colonial capitals, and Richmond, Virginia's current capital, lie on the James River.
^ ab"James River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^USGS data, accessed February 14, 2011
^ abU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived March 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 1, 2011
^"James River | Virginia, Map, History, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. March 5, 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
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