Middle River is an
estuary
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in
Baltimore County
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,
Maryland
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, located about 5 miles (8 km) east of the city of
Baltimore
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. The estuary extends from the community of
Middle River, north of the Martin Plaza Shopping Center, to the southeast for about 4 miles (6.4 km), to the
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 ...
. The
watershed area of Middle River is 12 square miles (31 km
2), and includes
Martin State Airport
Martin State Airport is a joint civil-military public use airport located nine nautical miles (10 mi, 17 km) east of the central business district of Baltimore, in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The facility is located wit ...
.
Tributaries of Middle River
Clockwise from the southern edge of its mouth, they are:
* Sue Creek
* Hogpen Creek
* Norman Creek
* Hopkins Creek
* Upper Middle River (no separate name)
* Dark Head Creek; its nontidal portion is Cowpens Run; Martins Lagoon is the upper tidal portion near Martin State Airport (neither of the latter two names are official feature names in GNIS)
* Stansbury Creek
*
Frog Mortar Creek
Frog Mortar Creek is a tidal creek in Baltimore County, Maryland. The creek empties into the Middle River and surrounds the northeast and southeast sides of Martin State Airport
Martin State Airport is a joint civil-military public use airp ...
* Galloway Creek
See also
*
List of Maryland rivers
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
* Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Resource Management (DEPRM). Towson, MD
"Middle River Watershed." Accessed 2009-07-31.
* DEPRM
"Water Quality Management Plan for Middle River Watershed."Executive Summary. March 2001. Includes a watershed map on page 3.
* United States Geological Survey. Reston, VA
"Middle River."''
Geographic Names Information System
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(GNIS).'' Accessed 2009-07-31.
Rivers of Baltimore County, Maryland
Tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay
Rivers of Maryland
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