Why is it called a "Drainage" ?

[Short Track]

Being from the east, tri-state area. Why is it called a drainage, and not a valley or rock filled valley.

Why when Elk hunting, it's called a 'draw' and not a valley.

Am I that much of a flat lander, that you westerners speak a different language??

 

[LCguy]

It's just regional language differences. I think it even varies state-to-state out west. In New Mexico we call them "drainages," or "cañónes" or "arroyos." Although arroyos tend to be smaller. I've never called it a draw or a holler.

 

[Geewhiz]

Would you rather that we call it a hollar?

 

[Poser]

Would you rather that we call it a hollar?

Its actually spelled "holler"

 

[RockAndSage]

Its actually spelled "holler"

It's actually spelled "hollow", and then mangled into incomprehensibility.

 

[Short Track]

ok, but I don't get it. What are you draining ???
back east, we drain water, have run off areas, etc.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

“Drainage basin” is an accepted geographical term that gets shortened to “drainage” or “basin” lots of times dependent on its size and shape.

 

[LCguy]

ok, but I don't get it. What are you draining ???
back east, we drain water, have run off areas, etc.

The snowmelt and rainwater has to go somewhere

 

[RockAndSage]

ok, but I don't get it. What are you draining ???
back east, we drain water, have run off areas, etc.

It's about water flow, coming down out of the snow-pack. Out west, water is much more scarce, and the way the different hills are formed dictate where that water goes - and where the food grows more abundantly. It's far, far less green out here. 3/4 of the US' rainfall, falls east of the Mississippi.

 

[Poser]

Being from the east, tri-state area. Why is it called a drainage, and not a valley or rock filled valley.

Why when Elk hunting, it's called a 'draw' and not a valley.

Am I that much of a flat lander, that you westerners speak a different language??

Water drains. Hence, "Drainage"

A draw is a small, natural depression, while a valley is a large, significant one.

Valleys were formed over millions of years of erosion: water and/or glaciers. Draws formed by the collection and runoff of surface water over a smaller area.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

Water drains. Hence, "Drainage"

A draw is a small, natural depression, while a valley is a large, significant one.

Valleys were formed over millions of years of erosion: water and/or glaciers. Draws formed by the collection and runoff of surface water over a smaller area.

How were hollers formed?

 

[atmat]

How were hollers formed?

Well, when a mommy holler and a daddy holler fall in love…

 

[survivalistd]

Would you rather that we call it a hollar?

Speak up i cant hear you..

 

[survivalistd]

Water drains. Hence, "Drainage"

A draw is a small, natural depression, while a valley is a large, significant one.

Valleys were formed over millions of years of erosion: water and/or glaciers. Draws formed by the collection and runoff of surface water over a smaller area.

This is definitely a boring description

 

[SloppyJ]

It's a drainage basin and it's controlled by the natural topography. It's a civil engineering type deal. Basins can be broken down into smaller sub basins and ultimately into a specific piece of property based on how water flows through it. What people are actually referring to are sub basins of a specific river drainage system. Bonus points, there are also a bunch of other types of basins based on the scale you're looking at. Even sewer basins.

At home, we just call them hollers.

 

[Poser]

How were hollers formed?

for an in depth perspective, I recommend a historical documentary from way back in the 1900s, 1991 to be precise, called "The Dancin' Outlaw"

 

[Sccritterkiller]

for an in depth perspective, I recommend a historical documentary from way back in the 1900s, 1991 to be precise, called "The Dancin' Outlaw"

Whites were over in Boone County I grew 2 counties to the west it was more Hatfield/McCoy territory....doesn't really explain a holler in said documentary.

 

[Poser]

Whites were over in Boone County I grew 2 counties to the west it was more Hatfield/McCoy territory....doesn't really explain a holler in said documentary.

When D. Ray White told Billy Hastings to "Get on out of the holler", you understood that the holler wasn't just where you lived, it was who you were. People in Appalachia are often identified by their holler. For example, "He's one of them Millers from over in Troublesome Holler". Often, an entire holler would be populated exclusively by a single extended family and remain that way for generations.

 

[Hoosker Doo]

ok, but I don't get it. What are you draining ???
back east, we drain water, have run off areas, etc.

A lot of the hunt units around here are determined by which drainage the are part of. Where I hunt a lot, if I poured out my water bottle and it flowed downhill to the north into tributaries of the Snake River, it's a different unit than if I crossed the summit and it flows south toward the bear river. There's not an obvious ridgeline to be a natural boundary in a lot of places, so I think about drainage direction all the time. The units have different regs and season dates.

 

[MuleyFever]

How were hollers formed?

Reading this I can only picture people in overalls and no shirt drinking moonshine with a smile that shows off their tooth.