Wicomico River (Potomac River tributary)

Wicomico River
	Cobb Island, MD is at the junction of Neale Sound, Wicomico River, and the Potomac River
Location
Country	United States
State	Maryland
Physical characteristics
Mouth
• location	Potomac River
• elevation	0 feet (0 m)
Length	13.0 miles (20.9 km)

The Wicomico River is a 13.0-mile-long (20.9 km)^[1] tributary of the lower tidal portion of the Potomac River located in the U.S. state of Maryland south of Washington, DC. The river empties into the Potomac at Cobb Island and St. Margaret's Island. Its watershed area (excluding water) is 77 square miles (200 km²), with 2% impervious surface in 1994^[2] in Charles, St. Mary's, and southern Prince George's counties. The lower section of the river forms part of the boundary between Charles and St. Mary's counties. The Wicomico River was designated as a Scenic River under the Maryland Scenic River Act in 1968; Scenic River Commissions oversee it in both Charles and St. Mary's counties (see links below).

Tributaries

Allens Fresh Run
- Willmer Creek
- Cramer Gut
- Posey Creek
- Tears Gut
- Steinhauser Gut
- Bunker Hill Branch
- Foggy Bottoms Gut
- Colby Run
- Newport Marsh Run
Newport Run
- Hickory Gut
- St. Clair Gut
- Murphy Run
Hodister Run
Lloyd Drain
Bowling Gut
Budds Creek
Chaptico Bay
- Chaptico Run
- Burroughs Run
- Bull Run
Maddox Creek
Charleston Creek
Neale Sound

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed August 15, 2011
^ Wicomico (on Potomac), MD Surf your watershed, Watershed profile. [1], accessed June 13, 2012

External links

[NHD-1] U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed August 15, 2011

[MDSW-2] Wicomico (on Potomac), MD Surf your watershed, Watershed profile. [1], accessed June 13, 2012

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