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Tiber Creek or Tyber Creek, originally named Goose Creek, is a tributary of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was a free-flowing creek until 1815, when it was channeled to become part of the Washington City Canal. Presently, it flows under the city in tunnels, including under Constitution Avenue NW.
Across the Potomac from the mouth of a creek, a special lock on the C&O Canal was constructed to allow canal boats from Goose Creek to enter the canal. By 1845, the Goose Creek and Little River Navigation Company canal system had been completed on Goose Creek to Ball's (Evergreen) Mill, 12 miles (19 km) upstream from the mouth. Due to financial ...
Broad Creek (Maryland) Henson Creek (Maryland) Swan Creek (Maryland) Piscataway Creek (Maryland) Little Hunting Creek (Virginia) Dogue Creek (Virginia) Accotink Creek (Virginia) Pohick Creek (Virginia) Pomonkey Creek (Maryland) Occoquan River (Virginia) Neabsco Creek (Virginia) Powells Creek (Virginia) Mattawoman Creek (Maryland) Chicamuxen ...
Little River is a 23.4-mile-long (37.7 km) [2] tributary stream of Goose Creek in Fauquier and Loudoun counties in Northern Virginia. Via Goose Creek, it is a tributary of the Potomac River . The stream rises to the east of Marshall in Fauquier County and flows northwards along the western base of the Bull Run Mountains to Aldie , where it ...
Along the way the following tributaries drain into the Potomac: Antietam Creek, Shenandoah River, Catoctin Creek (Virginia), Catoctin Creek (Maryland), Tuscarora Creek, Monocacy River, Little Monocacy River, Broad Run, Goose Creek, Broad Run, Horsepen Branch, Little Seneca Creek, Tenmile Creek, Great Seneca Creek, Old Sugarland Run, Muddy ...
Goose Island is a vanishing island located in the Potomac River in the southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., in the United States.It is a rarely above-water mudflat located at the mouth of Oxon Creek, roughly between Oronoco Bay in Alexandria and Marbury Point (Shepherds Landing), now part of the Blue Plains water treatment plant.
Goose Creek is located in southern Berkeley County at (32.9955, -80.0289 It is bordered to the east by the Cooper River and the Back River, to the southeast by an outer portion of the city of Charleston , to the southwest by the city of Hanahan and (farther to the west) the city of North Charleston in Charleston County , and to the west by the ...
Barnum, West Virginia; Bayard, West Virginia; Beryl, West Virginia; Blaine, West Virginia; Bloomington, Maryland; Bowling Green, Maryland; Carpendale, West Virginia