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Tanyard Branch (Marshyhope Creek Tributary)
Tanyard Branch is a long tributary to Marshyhope Creek that rises in western Sussex County, Delaware and flows west into Caroline County, Maryland. See also *List of rivers of Delaware *List of rivers of Maryland List of rivers of Maryland (U.S. state). 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 Delaware River *C ... References Rivers of Delaware Rivers of Maryland Rivers of Sussex County, Delaware Rivers of Caroline County, Maryland Tributaries of the Nanticoke River {{Delaware-river-stub ...
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Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. Baltimore is the largest city in the state, and the capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are '' Old Line State'', the ''Free State'', and the '' Chesapeake Bay State''. It is named after Henrietta Maria, the French-born queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, who was known then in England as Mary. Before its coastline was explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Maryland was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans – mostly by Algonquian peoples and, to a lesser degree, Iroquoian and Siouan. As one of the original Thirteen Colonies of England, Maryland was founded by George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, a Catholic convert"George Calvert and Cecilius Calvert, Barons Baltimore" William Hand Browne, ...
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Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Delaware Bay, in turn named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor. Delaware occupies the northeastern portion of the Delmarva Peninsula and some islands and territory within the Delaware River. It is the second-smallest and sixth-least populous state, but also the sixth-most densely populated. Delaware's largest city is Wilmington, while the state capital is Dover, the second-largest city in the state. The state is divided into three counties, having the lowest number of counties of any state; from north to south, they are New Castle County, Kent County, and Sussex County. While the southern two counties have historically been predominantly agricultural, New Castle is more ...
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Caroline County, Maryland
Caroline County is a rural county located in the U.S. state of Maryland on its Eastern Shore. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,293. Its county seat is Denton. Caroline County is bordered by Queen Anne's County to the north, Talbot County to the west, Dorchester County to the south, Kent County, Delaware, to the east, and Sussex County, Delaware, to the southeast. History Caroline County was created via 1773 Maryland General Assembly legislation from parts of Dorchester and Queen Anne's counties. The county derives its name from Lady Caroline Eden, wife of Maryland's last colonial governor, Robert Eden. Seven commissioners were originally appointed: Charles Dickinson, Benson Stainton, Thomas White, William Haskins, Richard Mason, Joshua Clark, and Nathaniel Potter. These men bought of land at Pig Point (now Denton) on which to build a courthouse and jail. Until the completion of these buildings, court was held at Melvill's Warehouse, approximately north of P ...
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Sussex County, Delaware
Sussex County is located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula. As of the 2020 census, the population was 237,378. The county seat is Georgetown. The first European settlement in the state of Delaware was founded by the Dutch in 1631 near the present-day town of Lewes on the Atlantic Coast. However, Sussex County was not organized until 1683 under English colonial rule. Sussex County is included in the Salisbury, MD-DE Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses much of central Delmarva. History Beginnings Archaeologists estimate that the first inhabitants of Sussex County, the southernmost county in Delaware, arrived between 10,000 and 14,000 years ago. Various indigenous cultures occupied the area, especially along the river and the coast, often having seasonal fishing villages. Historic Native Americans in Sussex County were members of Algonquian-speaking tribes, as were most coastal peoples along the Atlantic Coast. By the ...
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Marshyhope Creek
Marshyhope Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Nanticoke River on the Delmarva Peninsula. It rises in Kent County, Delaware, and runs through Caroline County, Maryland, and Dorchester County, Maryland. Marshyhope Creek begins in southwestern Kent County, Delaware, near the city of Harrington, and ends at the Nanticoke River, near Sharptown, Maryland Sharptown is a town in Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. The population was 651 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. History San Domingo School was listed on the National .... The entire watershed is in the coastal plain and reaches sea level at Federalsburg, The head of navigation. There are several small creeks on the western shore, including Faulkner Branch, Sullivan Branch, Capital Branch, Green Branch, and Horsepen Arm. On the easter ...
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Nanticoke River
The Nanticoke River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula. It rises in southern Kent County, Delaware, flows through Sussex County, Delaware, and forms the boundary between Dorchester County, Maryland and Wicomico County, Maryland. The tidal river course proceeds southwest into the Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay. The river is long. A 26-mile ecotourism water trail running along the River was set aside in July 2011 by Delaware state and federal officials, contiguous with a 37-mile water-trail extending through Maryland to the Chesapeake Bay. Some of the main tributaries that feed the Nanticoke on the west-side include: Cow Creek; Jack Creek; Wapremander Creek; Marshyhope Creek; and the east side: Gravelly Fork, Gum Branch, and Broad Creek. Notable towns and communities situated along the river include Nanticoke, Bivalve, Vienna, and Sharptown in Maryland; and further north the city of Seaford, Delaware. According to a study paid for by the town of Vie ...
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Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay ( ) is the largest estuary in the United States. The Bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula (including the parts: the Eastern Shore of Maryland / Eastern Shore of Virginia and the state of Delaware) with its mouth of the Bay at the south end located between Cape Henry and Cape Charles (headland), Cape Charles. With its northern portion in Maryland and the southern part in Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay is a very important feature for the ecology and economy of those two states, as well as others surrounding within its watershed. More than 150 major rivers and streams flow into the Bay's drainage basin, which covers parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia) and all of District of Columbia. The Bay is approximately long from its northern headwaters in the Susquehanna River to its outlet in the Atlantic Ocea ...
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe and Asia from the "New World" of the Americas in the European perception of the World. The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Europe and Africa to the east, and North and South America to the west. As one component of the interconnected World Ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean, to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south (other definitions describe the Atlantic as extending southward to Antarctica). The Atlantic Ocean is divided in two parts, by the Equatorial Counter Current, with the North(ern) Atlantic Ocean and the South(ern) Atlantic Ocean split at about 8°N. Scientific explorations of the A ...
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List Of Rivers Of Delaware
List of rivers in Delaware (U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by name. Major rivers and creeks (27) *Appoquinimink River *Blackbird Creek *Brandywine Creek (Christina River tributary), Brandywine Creek *Broad Creek (Nanticoke River tributary), Broad Creek *Broadkill River *Choptank River *Christina River *Delaware River *Hershey Run *Indian River (Delaware), Indian River *Leipsic River *Lingo Creek *Little River (Delaware), Little River *Marshyhope Creek *Mill Creek (White Clay Creek tributary), Mill Creek *Mispillion River *Murderkill River *Naamans Creek *Nanticoke River *Pepper Creek (Delaware), Pepper Creek *Pocomoke River *Red Clay Creek *St. Jones River *Sassafras River *Shellpot Creek *Simons River *Smyrna River *White Clay Creek All named streams (437) *Agricultural Ditch (Dirickson Creek tributary), Agricultural Ditch, Sussex County, Delaware, Sussex County *Ake Ditch, Sussex County, Delaware, Sussex County *Alapocas Run (Brandywine Creek tributary), Alapocas Run, ...
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List Of Rivers Of Maryland
List of rivers of Maryland (U.S. state). 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 Delaware River *Christina River Atlantic Ocean * Ayres Creek * Greys Creek * St. Martin River *Turville Creek * Trappe Creek Chesapeake Bay Eastern Shore * Pocomoke River ** Dividing Creek ** Nassawango Creek *Little Annemessex River *Big Annemessex River *Manokin River * Monie Creek * Wicomico River ** Beaverdam Creek * Nanticoke River **Barren Creek *** Mockingbird Creek **Marshyhope Creek *** Big Creek ***Stony Bar Creek ***Krafts Creek *** Spears Creek ***Becky Taylor Branch *** Mill Branch *** Mill Creek *** Puckum Branch *** Wrights Branch ***Skinners Run ***Davis Millpond Branch **** North Davis Millpond Branch **** South Davis Millpond Branch *** Miles Branch *** Tanyard Branch *** Faulkner Branch *** Tull Branch ***Sullivan Branch **** Raccoon ...
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Rivers Of Delaware
List of rivers in Delaware (U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by name. Major rivers and creeks (27) *Appoquinimink River *Blackbird Creek * Brandywine Creek * Broad Creek *Broadkill River * Choptank River *Christina River *Delaware River *Hershey Run * Indian River *Leipsic River *Lingo Creek *Little River *Marshyhope Creek * Mill Creek *Mispillion River *Murderkill River *Naamans Creek * Nanticoke River * Pepper Creek * Pocomoke River *Red Clay Creek * St. Jones River *Sassafras River *Shellpot Creek * Simons River *Smyrna River *White Clay Creek All named streams (437) * Agricultural Ditch, Sussex County *Ake Ditch, Sussex County *Alapocas Run, New Castle County * Allabands_Mill_Stream,_ Allabands_Mill_Stream_(Isaac_Branch_tributary)">Allabands_Mill_Stream,_Kent_County,_Delaware">Kent_County *Alms_House_Ditch,__Sussex_County *Almshouse_Branch_(Isaac_Branch_tributary).html" ;"title="Kent_County,_Delaware.html" ;"title="Branch">Allabands Mill Stream (Isaac Allabands_Mill ...
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