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Point of Rocks is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Frederick County, Maryland.As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,466. [3]Point of Rocks is named for a rock formation on the adjacent Catoctin Mountain, which was formed by the Potomac River cutting through the ridge in a water gap, a typical formation in the Appalachian Mountains.
Point of Rocks Bridge: US 15: Loudoun County / Point of Rocks: White's Ferry: SR 655 MD 107: Loudoun County / Montgomery County: American Legion Memorial Bridge: I-495 (Capital Beltway) Fairfax County / Montgomery County
U.S. Route 15 (US 15) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs from Walterboro, South Carolina, north to Painted Post, New York.In Maryland, the highway runs 37.85 miles (60.91 km) from the Virginia state line at the Potomac River in Point of Rocks north to the Pennsylvania state line near Emmitsburg.
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 length of the river from the junction of its North and South Branches to Point Lookout is 302 mi (486 km). [4]
Maryland Route 464 (MD 464) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.Known for most of its length as Point of Rocks Road, the state highway runs 8.10 miles (13.04 km) from MD 17 and MD 79 in Rosemont east to Ballenger Creek Pike in Point of Rocks.
Martinak State Park is a public recreation area located on the Choptank River and Watts Creek, immediately south of Denton in Caroline County, Maryland.The park bears the name of George Martinak, who deeded his land to the state in 1961. [2]
Point of Rocks (Sierra County, New Mexico), landmark along the Jornada del Muerto; Point of Rocks (Chester, Virginia), listed on the NRHP in Chesterfield County, Virginia; Point of Rocks (Texas), an isolated hill with a spring, a watering place on the San Antonio - El Paso Road, 10 miles west of Fort Davis, Texas, now a roadside park
Point of Rocks is a point of mountain range, as yet unnamed, that projects into the bed of the Mojave River in San Bernardino County, California.This range of mountains runs south to north along the east side of the Mojave River between Oro Grande and the mountain that Point of Rocks is a part, a mile northeast of Helendale.