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The source of the North Branch Potomac River is at the Fairfax Stone located at the junction of Grant, Tucker and Preston counties in West Virginia. From the Fairfax Stone, the North Branch Potomac River flows 27 mi (43 km) to the man-made Jennings Randolph Lake, an impoundment designed for flood control and emergency water supply. Below the ...
This is a route-map template for the Potomac River, a waterway in the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
1.2 Alphabetically by state. 1.2.1 District of Columbia. 1.2.2 Maryland. 1.2.3 Virginia. 1.2.4 West Virginia. ... Toggle North Fork South Branch Potomac River subsection.
Broad Run (Potomac River tributary) Browns Dan River; Buck Island Creek; Buffalo Creek (Appomattox River tributary) ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Virginia ...
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 ...
A view of Big Slackwater, made by Dam No. 4. Towpath of the C & O Canal continues on the right. The dam was originally built for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.On June 7, 1832, the contract was awarded to Joseph Hollman, and the work was completed in June 1835, at a cost of $50.803.15 [6] To avoid construction costs, the canal entered the slackwater above the dam, and continued in the ...
The South Branch Wildlife Management Area is 1,092 acres (4.42 km 2) [2] of mixed oak-hickory woodlands and pastures in Hampshire and Hardy Counties, West Virginia, USA.The South Branch WMA consists of four separate tracts (McNeill, Bridge, Trough Club, and Sector) along the South Branch Potomac River around and south of the river gorge known as The Trough.
Little Hunting Creek is a 3.6-mile-long (5.8 km) [1] primarily tidal tributary of the Potomac River located in Fairfax County, Virginia, not to be confused with Hunting Creek farther north. A stone-arch bridge, completed in 1931, [ 2 ] carries traffic on the George Washington Memorial Parkway across the narrow mouth of the creek, located 96.6 ...