Kanawha

Kanawha may refer to:

Places

 * Kanawha River in West Virginia, joining the Ohio River at Point Pleasant
 * Kanawha Falls, a waterfall on the Kanawha River
 * Kanawha Falls, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fayette County near the waterfall
 * Kanawha River Valley AVA, West Virginia wine region
 * Little Kanawha River in West Virginia, joining the Ohio River at Parkersburg
 * Kanawha, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Wood County near Parkersburg
 * Kanawha County, West Virginia
 * Kanawha County textbook controversy, a violent school control struggle beginning in 1974
 * State of Kanawha, an early name for the state of West Virginia
 * Kanawha Canal, part of the James River and Kanawha Canal, a partially built canal in Richmond, VA
 * Kanawha (Luray, Virginia), a historic house
 * Kanawha, Iowa, city

Railroad

 * Kanawha, a type 2-8-4 railroad steam locomotive

Ships

 * Kanawha (1899), a steam yacht owned by Henry H. Rogers
 * USS Kanawha or USNS Kanawha has been the name of seven ships of the United States Navy
 * USS Kanawha II (SP-130), a yacht which served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919 and was renamed USS Piqua (SP-130) in 1918.
 * The United States Coast Guard Cutter Kanawha, a buoy tender in Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Other uses

 * Kanawha, a solar deity in Seneca mythology
 * Kanawha Valley people, an ancient indigenous people who lived in what is now West Virginia
 * "Kanawha", a song by rock band Seam from the album The Pace Is Glacial