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The Elk River is a tidal tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and on the northern edge of the Delmarva Peninsula. It is about 15 miles (24 km) long. [ 1 ] As the most northeastern extension of the Chesapeake Bay estuary , it has served as one entrance to the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal since the 19th century.
Elkton is a town in and the county seat [3] of Cecil County, Maryland, United States.The population was 15,776 at the 2020 census, up from 15,443 in 2010.It was formerly called Head of Elk because it sits at the head of navigation on the Elk River, one of the five tributary rivers that flow into the north of the Chesapeake Bay, east of the Susquehanna River and North East River, and north of ...
Sassafras River; Elk River. Bohemia River; Big Elk Creek; Little Elk Creek; North East River. ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – States of Maryland and Delaware (1974)
Little Bohemia Creek, August 24, 2008. The Bohemia River is a 4.7-mile-long (7.6 km) [1] tributary of the Elk River on the Delmarva Peninsula.It is located in Cecil County, Maryland, with its headwaters extending into New Castle County, Delaware.
Elk Neck State Park is a public recreation area located between Chesapeake Bay and the Elk River near the southern tip of the Elk Neck Peninsula in Cecil County, Maryland. The state park is home to the historic Turkey Point Light and offers land-based and water-based recreation. [ 3 ]
Cecil (MD) New Castle (DE) Physical characteristics; Source: Belltown Run divide • location: about 0.5 miles southwest of Melody Meadows, Delaware • coordinates: 1] • elevation: 70 ft (21 m) [2] Mouth: Elk River
The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal crosses from Back Creek on the Elk River to Port Penn, Delaware. While it was a shallow canal with locks after its construction in 1829, it was deepened in the early 20th century to sea level, and physically separates the Delmarva Peninsula from the rest of the United States.
Elk Neck Peninsula is in Cecil County, Maryland, between the towns of Elkton and North East, Maryland. Native American and colonial travelers often canoed or sailed up the Chesapeake Bay to Elkton, where the Elk River became unnavigable, and then walked or took some form of surface transportation to the Delaware Bay watershed , since this was ...