Town Creek (Potomac River)

picture info	Town Creek (Potomac River) Town Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 tributary stream of the Potomac River in the U.S. states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The creek is formed from the confluence of Sweet Root Creek and Elk Lick Creek, about south of Buchanan State Forest in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Town Creek flows south along the base of Warrior Mountain into Allegany County, Maryland. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal crosses it at the Town Creek Aqueduct. It empties into the Potomac about east of Oldtown, Maryland. See also List of rivers of Maryland List of rivers of Pennsylvania This is a list of streams and rivers in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Delaware Bay Chesapeake Bay '' ... Town Creek (Patuxent River) * Town Creek (Tred Avon River) Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Town Creek Under Town Creek Aqueduct A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, ''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic ''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Aqueducts On The C&O Canal The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) used 11 navigable aqueducts to carry the canal over rivers and streams that were too wide for a culvert to contain. Aqueducts, like Lock (water transport), locks and other masonry structures, were called "works of art" by the canal board of directors. In addition to these 11 aqueducts, there was the Aqueduct Bridge (Potomac River), Alexandria Aqueduct, which connected the C&O Canal with Alexandria, Virginia, Alexandria, Virginia, and the Broad Run Trunk Aqueduct, made of wood, and was originally a double culvert, and never listed in company records as an aqueduct. The aqueducts of the C&O, unlike the Roman aqueducts, were built with inferior materials and cement, and did not have a long life expectancy. Usually the trash from the floods did the most harm to the aqueducts. Seneca Aqueduct The Seneca Aqueduct (#1), located in Montgomery County, Maryland, also included a lock built in Locks on the C&O Canal, (Riley's Lock). The aqueduct traverses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rivers Of Pennsylvania This is a list of streams and rivers in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Delaware Bay Chesapeake Bay ''Elk River (MD)'' Big Elk Creek * Little Elk Creek ''North East River (MD) * North East Creek Gunpowder River Susquehanna River Susquehanna River Deer Creek Octoraro Creek * West Branch Octoraro Creek Stewart Run * East Branch Octoraro Creek ** Muddy Run Conowingo Creek Fishing Creek (Lancaster County) Muddy Creek (Susquehanna River tributary) * North Branch Muddy Creek South Branch Muddy Creek Tucquan Creek * Otter Creek Pequea Creek Big Beaver Creek Little Beaver Creek Conestoga River *Little Conestoga Creek * Mill Creek *Lititz Run * Cocalico Creek ** Hammer Creek Middle Creek Indian Run Little Cocalico Creek Muddy Creek (Conestoga River tributary) * Little M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	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 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rivers Of Allegany County, Maryland A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague. Rivers are part of the water cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, springs, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Town Creek (Tred Avon River) Town Creek is a tributary of the Tred Avon River in Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Geography The headwaters are located in Oxford and the creek flows north to the Tred Avon River, which drains to the Choptank River and the Chesapeake Bay. The watershed area of the creek is .Maryland Department of the Environment. Baltimore, MD"Total Maximum Daily Loads of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Nitrogen and Phosphorus for Town Creek."2002-12-26. p. 1. See also List of Maryland rivers Town Creek (Patuxent River) Town Creek (Potomac River) Town Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 tributary stream of the Potomac River in the U.S. states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The creek is formed f ... References {{authority control Tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay Rivers of Maryland Rivers of Talbot County, Maryland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Town Creek (Patuxent River) Town Creek is a tributary of the Patuxent River in Saint Mary's County, Maryland. Geography The headwaters are located in the community of California, Maryland, on the east side of Maryland Route 235. The creek flows north about to the Patuxent River, which drains to the Chesapeake Bay. The watershed area of the creek is .Maryland Department of the Environment. Baltimore, MD"Total Maximum Daily Loads for Island Creek, Town Creek, Trent Hall Creek, St. Thomas Creek, Harper and Pearson Creeks, Goose Creek and Indian Creek, and a Water Quality Analysis for Battle Creek of Fecal Coliform For Restricted Shellfish Harvesting Areas in the Lower Patuxent River Basin in Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s Counties, Maryland."2004-09-28. p. 6. See also * List of Maryland rivers * Town Creek (Potomac River) Town Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 tributary stream of the Potomac River in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	List Of Rivers Of Pennsylvania This is a list of streams and rivers in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Delaware Bay Chesapeake Bay ''Elk River (MD)'' Big Elk Creek Little Elk Creek ''North East River (MD) *North East Creek Gunpowder River Susquehanna River Susquehanna River * Deer Creek Octoraro Creek * West Branch Octoraro Creek ** Stewart Run * East Branch Octoraro Creek ** Muddy Run Conowingo Creek Fishing Creek (Lancaster County) Muddy Creek (Susquehanna River tributary) *North Branch Muddy Creek * South Branch Muddy Creek Tucquan Creek Otter Creek Pequea Creek * Big Beaver Creek *Little Beaver Creek Conestoga River * Little Conestoga Creek * Mill Creek * Lititz Run Cocalico Creek *Hammer Creek Middle Creek Indian Run Little Cocalico Creek Muddy Creek (Conestoga River tributary) * Little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Map Of Wills Creek Town Creek Watersheds In Pennsylvania Maryland A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or fictional, without regard to context or scale, such as in brain mapping, DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract spaces of any dimension, such as arise in modeling phenomena having many independent variables. Although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the , wherein ''mappa'' meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and ''mundi'' 'the world'. Thus, "map" became a shortened term referring to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Oldtown, Maryland Oldtown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Allegany County, Maryland, United States, along the North Branch Potomac River. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 86. Demographics History It was founded in 18th century colonial times and was initially called "Opessa's Town" or "Shawanese Old Town" because it was the site of a Shawnee Amerindian village established by Opessa Straight Tail and abandoned about 1725. In later years the explanatory prefix was dropped from the name and the place because known simply as "Oldtown". Oldtown was begun (on a soon to be busy road) with the building of a trading post along an old Native American trail, the Nemacolin Trail, as traders, especially fur traders (and trappers) pushed through the Cumberland Narrows mountain pass into the Monongahela River valley. In 1741 Thomas Cresap established a trading post at the abandoned village. A few years earlier, Cresap had figured prominently in the Conejohela War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Chesapeake And Ohio Canal The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the "Grand Old Ditch," operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C. and Cumberland, Maryland. It replaced the Potomac Canal, which shut down completely in 1828, and could operate during months in which the water level was too low for the former canal. The canal's principal cargo was coal from the Allegheny Mountains. Construction on the canal began in 1828 and ended in 1850 with the completion of a stretch to Cumberland, although the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had already reached Cumberland in 1842. Rising and falling over an elevation change of , it required the construction of 74 Lock (water transport), canal locks, 11 Navigable aqueduct, aqueducts to cross major streams, more than 240 culverts to cross smaller streams, and the Paw Paw Tunnel. A planned section to the Ohio River at Pittsburgh was never built. The canalway is now maintained as the Chesapeake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]