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The St. Marys River (sometimes spelled St. Mary's River) is a 22.3-mile-long (35.9 km) [1] river in southern Maryland in the United States.It rises in southern St. Mary's County, and flows to the southeast through Great Mills, widening into a tidal estuary near St. Mary's City, approximately 2 miles (3 km) wide at its mouth on the north bank of the Potomac River, near the Chesapeake Bay to the ...
The St. Marys River (named Saint Marys River by the United States Geological Survey, [1]) is a 126-mile-long (203 km) [2] river in the southeastern United States. The river was known to the Timucua [ 3 ] [ 4 ] as Thlathlothlaguphka , [ 5 ] or Phlaphlagaphgaw , [ 6 ] meaning "rotten fish". [ 7 ]
Conterminous with the boundaries of St. Mary's County, the peninsula covers a land area of 361.25 square miles (935.6 km 2). [5] Northeast of St. Mary's Peninsula, on the opposite side of the Patuxent River, is the smaller Calvert Peninsula. Like St. Mary's Peninsula, Calvert Peninsula also has boundaries conterminous with a single Maryland county.
Elk River: 821: Near Tiff City, Missouri: Chikaskia River: 619: Near Blackwell: Lee Creek: 546: Near Arkansas state line North Fork Red River: 531: Near Tipton: Clear Boggy Creek: 498: Near Caney: Glover River: 497: Near Glover Cache Creek: 391: Near junction with Red River Little River (Canadian River) 360: Near Sasakwa Baron Fork: 329: Near ...
All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes. Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes at least 10 acres in size. The largest, near the Red River in McCurtain County, is 272 acres. Playa lakes are found in saucer-shaped depressions in the high plains region. They are usually intermittent, holding water only ...
The first lock to be built in the St. Marys River was on the Canadian side in 1798 by the Northwest Fur Company to facilitate the fur trade. [9] It was destroyed by the Americans in 1814 during the War of 1812 to disrupt British trade. [9] Currently, a single small lock is operated on the Canadian side of the Soo.
The station was deactivated in 1962, replaced by the Canadian operated Gros Cap Reefs Light, an unmanned buoy-type beacon in the St. Marys River channel. [17] [18] In 1993 the light quarters and light were completely renovated. [19] In 1975 the Point Iroquois Light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places Reference #75000940. It ...
St. Mary's River State Park is a public recreation area located in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The state park consists of two sites: one encompasses 250-acre (100 ha) St. Mary's Lake; the second covers 2,200 acres (890 ha) and is largely undeveloped.