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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 ...
The three largest rivers in order of both discharge and watershed area are the Susquehanna River, the Potomac River, and the James River. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Other major rivers include the Rappahannock River , the Appomattox River (which flows into the lower James River), the York River (a combination of the Pamunkey and Mattaponi tributary rivers ...
The Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary lies in an ecotone, a transition zone in the Potomac River where tides fluctuate between 1 and 2 feet (0.3 and 0.6 m) each day, mixing fresh water flowing into the sanctuary from farther up the river with salt water drawn northwards by the tides from the Chesapeake Bay. [25]
Dyke Marsh is a freshwater wetland and wildlife preserve located on the west bank of the Potomac River south of Alexandria, Virginia between Old Town Alexandria and Mount Vernon. Dyke Marsh consists of about 380 acres (1.5 km 2) of tidal marsh, floodplain, and swamp forest. It formed 5,000 to 7,000 years ago.
Aquia Creek (/ ɑː ˈ k w aɪ ə /) is a 27.6-mile-long (44.4 km) [1] tributary of the tidal segment of the Potomac River and is located in Northern Virginia.The creek's headwaters lie in southeastern Fauquier County, and it empties into the Potomac at Brent Point in Stafford County, 45 miles (72 km) south of Washington, D.C.
By the end of March 18, the Potomac River at Williamsport had risen to 48.6 feet. In Hancock, it had risen to 47.6 feet, 17 feet above flood stage. An estimated 300 to 350 homes along the Potomac ...
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.
The refuge has a mix of wetlands, forest, and native grasslands that provides a diversity of habitats for wide variety of species. Wetland habitats cover about 50% of the refuge and include wet meadows, bottomland hardwoods, open freshwater marsh, and tidally influenced marshes and streams. Upland meadows and mature oak-hickory-beech forest are ...