Miles River
Miles River | |
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Miles River at Newcomb in June 2008. | |
Etymology | Saint Michael |
Location | |
Country | United States of America |
State | Maryland |
Region | Talbot County |
Municipality | Newcomb |
Physical characteristics | |
Length | 12.9 mi (20.8 km) |
Basin size | 54 sq mi (140 km2) |
The Miles River is a 12.9-mile-long (20.8 km)[1] tidal river in Talbot County, Maryland. It is a tributary of the Eastern Bay and is thus part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Etymology
Miles River was originally called the St. Michaels River; it derives its name from Saint Michael, the patron saint of Colonial Maryland.[2]
Geography
Its watershed area is 54 square miles (140 km2), of which 12 square miles (31 km2) is open water, so it is 22% water. The predominant land use is agricultural with 22 square miles (57 km2), or 52% of the land area.
References
External links
- Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Profile: Miles River
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- Assawoman
- Chesapeake
- Chincoteague
- Curtis Bay
- Eastern
- Fishing
- Herring
- Isle of Wight
- Mallows
- Newport
- Pocomoke
- Sinepuxent
- Tangier
- Anacostia
- Annemessex (Big)
- Annemessex (Little)
- Back
- Bird
- Blackwater
- Blackwater (Little)
- Bohemia
- Bush
- Casselman
- Chester
- Chicamacomico
- Choptank
- Choptank (Little)
- Christina
- Corsica
- Elk
- Front
- Gunpowder
- Hawlings
- Jones Falls
- Magothy
- Magothy (Little)
- Manokin
- Middle
- Miles
- Monocacy
- Monocacy (Little)
- Nanticoke
- North
- North East
- Patapsco
- Patuxent
- Pocomoke
- Port Tobacco
- Potomac
- Rhode
- St. Martin
- St. Marys
- Sassafras
- Savage
- Severn
- South
- Susquehanna
- Transquaking
- Tred Avon
- Warwick
- West
- Wicomico (Potomac)
- Wicomico
- Wye
- Wye East
- Youghiogheny
runs,
streams
- Antietam
- Alloway
- Arundel Cove
- Ballenger
- Bear (Patapsco)
- Bear (Sideling Hill)
- Bear (Youghiogheny)
- Beaverdam
- Bennett
- Big Hunting
- Big Pipe
- Bodkin
- Bonnie Branch
- Bread and Cheese
- Broad (Choptank)
- Broad (Potomac)
- Broad (Susquehanna)
- Broad Run
- Budds
- Bush
- Cabin John
- Carroll
- Catoctin
- Catoctin (Little)
- Chicamuxen
- Collington Branch
- Conococheague
- Conococheague (Little)
- Conowingo
- Cuckold
- Curtis
- Deep Run
- Deer
- Dividing
- Dorsey Run
- Double Pipe
- Dry Seneca
- Dueling
- Dundee
- Evitts
- Fifteenmile
- Fishing
- Flintstone
- Frog Mortar
- Furnace
- Georges
- Great Seneca
- Green Branch
- Greys
- Gwynns Falls
- Harris
- Henson
- Herbert Run
- Herring Run
- Honga
- Hunting (Little)
- Indian (Anacostia)
- Indian (Patuxent)
- Israel
- Laurel Run
- Licking
- Linganore
- Little Falls
- Little Falls Branch
- Little Pipe
- Little Seneca
- Lyons
- Main
- Marley
- Marsh
- Marshyhope
- Mattawoman
- Meekins
- Middle
- Mill Branch
- Minnehaha Branch
- Moores Run
- Muddy Branch
- Nanjemoy
- Nassawango
- Northeast Branch Anacostia River
- Northwest Branch Anacostia River
- Octoraro
- Owens
- Otter Point
- Oxon
- Paint Branch
- Parsons
- Piney
- Piscataway
- Plumtree Branch
- Pomonkey
- Principio
- Rock (Potomac)
- Rock Run
- Rockburn Branch
- Roland Run
- Romney
- St. Leonard
- Saltpeter
- Sams
- Sellman
- Seneca (Middle)
- Seneca (Potomac)
- Sideling Hill
- Slaughter
- Sligo
- Soapstone Branch
- Stony
- Stony Run
- Swanson
- Tenmile Creek
- Thoms Cove
- Toms
- Tonoloway
- Town (Patuxent)
- Town (Potomac)
- Town (Tred Avon)
- Towson Run
- Trappe
- Tuckahoe
- Turville
- Tuscarora (Monocacy)
- Tuscarora (Potomac)
- Tuscarora (Little)
- Watts Branch
- Western Run
- Wills
- Winters Run
- Allen Pond
- Artemesia
- Buckel's Bog
- Centennial
- Deep Creek
- Elkhorn
- Bernard Frank
- Jennings Randolph
- Kittamaqundi
- Little Seneca
- Needwood
- Quarry Lake
- Roland
- Parker Pond
- Schumaker Pond
- Woodward Pond
- Youghiogheny
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