• Thumbnail for Little Falls Branch (Potomac River tributary)
    Little Falls Branch, a 3.8-mile-long (6.1 km) tributary stream of the Potomac River, is located in Montgomery County, Maryland. In the 19th century, the...
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    the Little Falls of the Potomac River, to the Chesapeake Bay. Along the way the following tributaries drain into the Potomac: Pimmit Run, Gulf Branch, Donaldson...
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    Northwest Branch and the Northeast Branch just north of Cottage City, Maryland. Tributaries of these sources include Sligo Creek, Paint Branch, Little Paint...
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  • (Patuxent River tributary) Israel Creek Israel Creek (Potomac River tributary) James Run Jennings Run Jones Falls Laurel Run Licking Creek Limekiln Branch Linganore...
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    (Susquehanna River tributary) North Branch Muddy Creek South Branch Muddy Creek Tucquan Creek Otter Creek Pequea Creek Big Beaver Creek Little Beaver Creek...
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    The Kanawha River (/kəˈnɔːə/ kə-NAW-ə) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 97 mi (156 km) long, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The largest...
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    and Potomac rivers were established. Both branches and the lower Susquehanna were part of important regional transportation corridors. The river was extensively...
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    Antietam Creek (category Tributaries of the Potomac River)
    Antietam Creek (/ænˈtiːtəm/) is a 41.7-mile-long (67.1 km) tributary of the Potomac River located in south central Pennsylvania and western Maryland in...
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    Difficult Run (category Tributaries of the Potomac River)
    Difficult Run is a 15.9-mile-long (25.6 km) tributary stream of the Potomac River in Northern Virginia in the United States. The area has had many historical...
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  • 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...
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    southeast to Philadelphia, where it joins the Delaware River as one of its largest tributaries. The river's watershed of about 2,000 sq mi (5,180 km2) lies entirely...
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    bypass rapids in the Potomac River upstream of the present Washington, D.C., area. The most well known of them is the Great Falls skirting canal, whose...
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    approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of the headwaters of the North Branch Potomac River and pass through Silver Lake before flowing north-northeast into...
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  • California Saline River - Arkansas, a tributary of the Little River Saline River - Arkansas, a tributary of the Ouachita River Saline River - Illinois Salkehatchie...
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  • (185 km) North Branch Potomac River – 103 miles (166 km) Conococheague Creek – 80 miles (130 km) Choptank River – 71 miles (114 km) Pocomoke River – 66 miles...
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  • Creek tributary), a tributary of Patterson Creek Mill Creek (South Branch Potomac River tributary), a tributary of the South Branch Potomac River Mill...
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    Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois. It is the third largest river by discharge volume in the United States and the largest tributary by volume...
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  • The Potomac River basin reservoir projects were U.S. Army Corps of Engineers programs that sought to regulate the flow of the Potomac River to control...
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  • Seneca Dam (category Potomac River)
    the last in a series of dams proposed on the Potomac River in the area of the Great Falls of the Potomac. Apart from small-scale dams intended to divert...
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    Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (category Potomac River watershed)
    the Potomac River. His company built five skirting canals around the major falls: Little Falls (later incorporated in the C&O Canal), Great Falls in Virginia...
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    Another major Indian route crossed the Potomac nearer what became Washington, D.C., and the falls of the Potomac River, crossing in the Sugarland/Seneca valley...
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    Alleghenies: to the east, Smoke Hole Canyon (South Branch Potomac River), and to the west the New River Gorge and the Blackwater and Cheat Canyons. Thus...
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    Point Lookout State Park (category Potomac River)
    including the mouth of the Potomac River on the south side of Point Lookout and its small nearby tributary, the St. Mary's River. Smith gave very favorable...
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  • Connecticut River List of covered bridges in Vermont List of non-authentic covered bridges in Vermont 14th Street Bridge, I-395 and US 1 across Potomac River between...
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    the north and southeast by the Potomac River. Across the river to the northeast is Washington, D.C., across the river to the north is Montgomery County...
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    McLean, Virginia (category Virginia populated places on the Potomac River)
    west bank of the Potomac River. The river forms the community's northern and eastern borders, and a number of its smaller tributaries flow north and northeast...
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    Cowpasture Rivers near the present-day town of Clifton Forge, flowing east to Hampton Roads. (The Rivanna River, a tributary of the James River, and Fluvanna...
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    by volunteers. The park incorporates the valleys of the Gwynns Falls and its tributaries, extending more than six miles (9.7 km) from the western municipal...
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  • Zekiah Swamp (category Potomac River watershed)
    braided stream stretching the length of Charles County and is a tributary of the Potomac River. It sits at an elevation of three feet (0.91 m) and 450 acres...
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    as a local folk-hero. The Little River is a tributary of the Goose Creek, which itself is a tributary of the Potomac River. The roadway reaches the Town...
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