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The Potomac River (/ p ə ˈ t oʊ m ə k / ⓘ) in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. It is 405 miles (652 km) long, [ 4 ] with a drainage area of 14,700 square miles (38,000 km 2 ), [ 5 ] and is the fourth-largest river along the East Coast of the ...
The Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary [1] is a National Marine Sanctuary in the United States located in the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland. [2] It is best known for the "Ghost Fleet," 118 historic shipwrecks in Mallows Bay in the sanctuary's northeast corner which is the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western ...
The Potomac River, at Shepherdstown, was at 10.68 feet as of 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, according to the weather service's latest online observation.
Purse State Park is a former Maryland state park located on the Potomac River in Charles County that has been subsumed into the 1,365-acre (552 ha) Nanjemoy Wildlife Management Area. [3] As the Purse Area, the former park is known for fossil hunting on the beaches of Wades Bay at the southern end of the Nanjemoy WMA.
Maryland has 281 named islands within its many waters and waterways, including the Atlantic Ocean; the Chesapeake Bay and its many tributary tidal rivers, creeks and bays; as well as within larger whitewater rivers like the upper Potomac.
The bay was listed as an archaeological and historic district on the National Register of Historic Places on April 24, 2015, [12] and was included in the Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary on September 3, 2019. [5] Among the most prominent ships seen at Mallows Bay is the S.S. Accomac. [13] [14] [15]
Difficult Run is a 15.9-mile-long (25.6 km) [1] tributary stream of the Potomac River in Northern Virginia in the United States. [2]The stream is part of a 57.7-square-mile drainage basin, or watershed, in the north-central portion of Fairfax County, Virginia.
Rock Creek is a tributary of the Potomac River, in the United States, that empties into the Atlantic Ocean via the Chesapeake Bay. The 32.6-mile (52.5 km) creek [1] drains about 76.5 square miles (198 km 2). Its final quarter-mile (400 m) is affected by tides. [2]