The Dan River flows in the U.S. states of

North Carolina North Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia (U.S. stat ...

and

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...

. It rises in

Patrick County, Virginia Patrick County is a county located on the central southern border of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 17,608. Its county seat is Stuart. It is located within both the rolling hills and valley ...

, and crosses the state border into Stokes County, North Carolina. It then flows into Rockingham County. From there it flows back into

through Pittsylvania County before reentering

near the border between Caswell County and Rockingham County. It flows into northern Caswell County and then back into southern

(briefly Pittsylvania County, then into Halifax County) and finally into Kerr Reservoir on the

Roanoke River The Roanoke River ( ) runs long through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States. A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the ...

. The name of the river was first recorded by William Byrd II in 1728, during an expedition to survey the Virginia border, though Byrd did not explain the reason for the name. A variant name is "South Branch Roanoke River". In 2014, a large amount of coal ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, spilled into the lower Dan River in Rockingham County, near Eden, North Carolina , prompting a cleanup process costing an estimated $300 million. Dan River is also the name of the southeastern political district of Pittsylvania County, where a small section of the river serves as the boundary between Pittsylvania County and the city of Danville. On June 25, 2021, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a law adding the river's paddle trail in Stokes and Rockingham Counties as its eleventh State Trail.

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Dan River State Trail
official website for the state paddle trail.
Map of the Dan River Watershed
{{authority control Rivers of Caswell County, North Carolina Rivers of Rockingham County, North Carolina Rivers of Stokes County, North Carolina Rivers of Patrick County, Virginia Rivers of North Carolina Rivers of Virginia Tributaries of the Roanoke River

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