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Regional dialects in North America are historically the most strongly differentiated along the Eastern seaboard, due to distinctive speech patterns of urban centers of the American East Coast like Boston, New York City, and certain Southern cities, all of these accents historically noted by their London-like r-dropping (called non-rhoticity), a feature gradually receding among younger ...
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 ...
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.
Conococheague Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River, is a free-flowing stream that originates in Pennsylvania and empties into the Potomac River near Williamsport, Maryland. It is 80 miles (129 km) in length, [ 1 ] with 57 miles (92 km) in Pennsylvania and 23 miles (37 km) in Maryland.
This is a complete list of tributary streams of the Potomac River in the Eastern United States, listed in order from source to mouth. North Branch Potomac River (Maryland/West Virginia) South Branch Potomac River (Virginia/West Virginia) Town Creek (Maryland/Pennsylvania) Big Run (Maryland) Little Cacapon River (West Virginia) Purslane Run ...
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 following have been listed as variant names of the Potomac River throughout its history by the Geographic Names Information System. The Board on Geographic Names officially decided upon Potomac as its spelling in 1931.
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