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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.
The dates of spring tides and neap tides, approximately seven days apart, can be determined by the heights of the tides on the classic tide tables: a small range indicates neaps and large indicates springs. This cycle of tides is linked to the phases of the moon, with the highest tides (spring tides) occurring near full moon and new moon.
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 ...
In Maryland the Tidewater area is the flooded river areas below the Fall Line. The Hampton Roads area of Virginia is considered to be a Tidewater region. Southern Maryland [ 4 ] and the Eastern Shore , parts of Delaware round out the northern part of the region on the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays.
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 ...
12.91 cu ft/s (0.366 m 3 /s) at mouth with Elk River [4] Basin features; Progression: Elk River → Chesapeake Bay → Atlantic Ocean: River system: Elk River: Tributaries • left: unnamed tributaries • right: unnamed tributaries: Bridges: Frazer Road, Hutton Road, Augustine Herman Highway
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.
List of rivers of Maryland . The list is arranged by drainage basin from east to west, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. By drainage basin