The Great Wicomico River is a 15.2-mile-long (24.5 km) river in the U.S. state of Virginia, located approximately 60 miles (97 km) northeast of Richmond...
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the Chesapeake Bay Wicomico River (Potomac River), a tributary of the Potomac River in south central Maryland Great Wicomico River, a tributary of Chesapeake...
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The Great Wicomico River Light was a lighthouse located at the mouth of the Great Wicomico River, south of the Potomac River on the western side of the...
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reservation of 4,400 acres (18 km2) near Dividing Creek, south of the Great Wicomico River. The grandson of Machywap (later called Machywap Taptico, once a...
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(Maryland) Rhode River St. Marys River (Maryland) Little Wicomico River Great Wicomico River Piankatank River East River (Virginia) North River (Mobjack Bay)...
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Branch Potomac River North Fork South Branch Potomac River Laurel Fork Little Wicomico River Great Wicomico River Rappahannock River Urbanna Creek Lagrange...
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Virginia's longest river upstream from Columbia were much later named for Queen Anne of Great Britain, in modern times, it is called the James River. It forms...
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reserve that supplies spat for cultivation. Near the mouth of the Great Wicomico River in the Chesapeake Bay, five-year-old artificial reefs now harbor...
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Northumberland County, Virginia (category Virginia counties on the Potomac River)
reservation of 4,400 acres (18 km2) near Dividing Creek, south of the Great Wicomico River. The Patawomeck Tribe was hunted nearly to extinction in 1666, and...
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Corrotoman River Diascund Creek Diascund Reservoir Dogue Creek Great Wicomico River Hyco River Keokee Lake Lake Manassas Little Wicomico River Mattox Creek...
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Creek Little Annemessex River Big Annemessex River Manokin River Monie Creek Wicomico River Beaverdam Creek Nanticoke River Barren Creek Mockingbird...
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The Jones Point Light is a small river lighthouse located on the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia. It was built in 1855. It is a small, one-story...
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from Winter Harbor, a point a few miles north of Mobjack Bay and the York River. It got its name from the 1691 grounding of HMS Wolf, a British naval vessel...
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for the large amount of ocean-going shipping traffic for the harbors, its rivers, and shipping headed to ports on the bay. The original lighthouse was the...
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in the Great Cypress Swamp in southern Sussex County, Delaware. From there, it flows south into Maryland, forming the boundary between Wicomico and Worcester...
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in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located at the mouth of the Great Wicomico River. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fleeton...
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Chotank Creek, Port Tobacco River, Popes Creek, Gambo Creek, Clifton Creek, Piccowaxen Creek, Upper Machodoc Creek, Wicomico River, Cobb Island, Monroe Creek...
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is named. Mottrom owned property along or near the Great Wicomico River and the Chickacoan River. He also owned land on or close to Hull, King's, and...
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Mathew's store at Great Wicomoco, and in 1672 the county court granted him permission to erect a mill at the head of the Great Wicomico River or one of its...
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cargo of salt in Coan River, Virginia, on 1 August 1862, and seized and burned schooner Arctic in Maryland's Great Wicomico River on 15 September. She...
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Lights". Chesapeake Chapter U.S.L.H.S. Retrieved October 17, 2017. "Great Wicomico River". Chesapeake Chapter U.S.L.H.S. Retrieved October 17, 2017. "Name:...
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Wabash River. Wabash County, Illinois: Wabash is named for the Wabash River. Wicomico County, Maryland: Wicomico is named for the Wicomico River. In Lenape...
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Lights Great Wicomico River Light Hog Island Light Jones Point Light Jordan Point Light Killock Shoal Light Lambert Point Light Nansemond River Light New...
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vapor. Light List, Volume II, Atlantic Coast, Shrewsbury River, New Jersey to Little River, South Carolina (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard...
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Great Shoals Light was a screw-pile lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Wicomico River. This light was constructed to mark a narrow channel...
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White Marsh Branch Booth Branch Kent-Sussex Line Branch Wicomico River (MD) North Prong Wicomico River (MD) Leonard Pond Run (MD) Connelly Mill Branch North...
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between the Corrotoman River drainage, which empties into the Rappahannock River, and the watershed of the Great Wicomico River, which flows directly into...
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Lights Great Wicomico River Light Hog Island Light Jones Point Light Jordan Point Light Killock Shoal Light Lambert Point Light Nansemond River Light New...
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of the Potomac River. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Smith Point, at the mouth of the Potomac River, has been marked...
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Ocean Wave 18 July 1861 after a long chase off the mouth of the Great Wicomico River but lost three killed and one wounded 15 August when her boat unsuccessfully...
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