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The Potomac River in Washington, D.C., with Arlington Memorial Bridge in the foreground and Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia in the background. The Potomac River runs 405 mi (652 km) from Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park in West Virginia on the Allegheny Plateau to Point Lookout, Maryland, and drains 14,679 sq mi (38,020 km 2). The ...
Length: 101.27 mi (162.98 km) [2] Basin size: 1,343.04 square miles (3,478.5 km 2) [3] Discharge • location: Potomac River • average: 5.13 cu ft/s (0.145 m 3 /s) at mouth with Potomac River [3] Basin features; Progression: Potomac River → Chesapeake Bay → Atlantic Ocean: River system: Potomac River: Tributaries • left
Three—the Milk River, the Red River of the North, and the Saint Lawrence River—begin in the United States and flow into Canada; two do the opposite (Yukon and Columbia). Also a segment of the Saint Lawrence River forms the international border between part of the province of Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. state of New York.
The Shenandoah River / ˌ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə / is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, 55.6 miles (89.5 km) long with two forks approximately 100 miles (160 km) long each, [3] in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia.
Whenever the Potomac River level is below 3.5 ft (1.1 m) on the Little Falls gauge 6,000 cu ft/s (170 m 3 /s), there is a sheer drop between the end of the concrete channel and the river. In certain conditions of high course flow and low river level, a stream-wide retentive hydraulic, or "sticky hole," posed a hazard to paddlers who failed to ...
The South Branch Potomac River has its headwaters in northwestern Highland County, Virginia, near Hightown along the eastern edge of the Allegheny Front. After a river distance of 139 miles (224 km), [ 4 ] the mouth lies east of Green Spring , Hampshire County, West Virginia , where it meets the North Branch Potomac River to form the Potomac .
In 1828, the C&O Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) began fighting for sole use of the narrow strip of available land along the Potomac River from Point of Rocks to Harpers Ferry. [25] After a Maryland state court battle that involved Daniel Webster and Roger B. Taney, the companies agreed to share the right-of-way. [25]
Toggle South Fork South Branch Potomac River subsection. 5.1 Alphabetically. 5.2 Alphabetically by state. 5.2.1 Virginia. 5.2.2 West Virginia. Toggle the table of ...