Crossword clues for potomac
potomac
- American river
- Watergate view
- Washington's river
- View from behind the Lincoln Memorial
- U.S, river
- River under the Arlington Memorial Bridge
- River to the Chesapeake Bay
- River to Chesapeake Bay
- River through Washington
- River that borders Washington, DC
- River that Alexandria, VA and Washington, DC lie on
- River spanned by the Key Bridge
- River of Washington, D.C
- River of the Great Falls
- River of D.C
- River crossed by Washington
- Part of West Virginia's border
- Part of D.C.'s border
- Kennedy Center reflector
- Foggy Bottom river
- D.C. area river
- Alexandria’s river
- River name meaning "where the goods are brought in"
- Foggy Bottom's river
- Theodore Roosevelt Island setting
- It meets the Shenandoah at Harper's Ferry
- Harpers Ferry river
- Terms sometimes used to refer to Washington D.C.
- A river in the east central United States
- Rises in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia and flows eastward to the Chesapeake Bay
- Historic U.S. river
- The Key Bridge spans it
- Kind of fever in Washington
- Border river of Maryland
- Washington’s river
- Foreign banker puts a lot of money on old computer
- River of Washington DC
- Washington waterway
- D.C.'s river
- Watergate river
- View from Mount Vernon
- D.C. waterway
- Chesapeake Bay feeder
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
river in eastern U.S., from Algonquian Patowmeck, originally the name of a native village in Virginia, perhaps literally "something brought."
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 277
Land area (2000): 0.483486 sq. miles (1.252222 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.483486 sq. miles (1.252222 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61366
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.306351 N, 87.799987 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61865
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Headwords:
Potomac
Housing Units (2000): 15960
Land area (2000): 25.177686 sq. miles (65.209904 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.378819 sq. miles (3.571125 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 26.556505 sq. miles (68.781029 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63300
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.022694 N, 77.186423 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 20854
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Potomac
Wikipedia
Potomac may refer to:
Potomac is a station on the "Beechview" branch of the Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network. It is located in Dormont, Pennsylvania. The station serves as a small commuter stop, featuring 22 parking spaces. It is located in a densely populated residential area and is designed to provide the primary access route for area residents to Downtown Pittsburgh.
Potomac station, located at the intersection of Jefferson Davis Avenue and Potomac Avenue, is a bus rapid transit station in Alexandria, Virginia. It is a stop on the portion of dedicated bus-only highway along the Metroway bus rapid transit line, providing two-way service along the route. The station provides service to the southern Potomac Yard and Del Ray communities in Alexandria.
Usage examples of "potomac".
These booked no tours to Manhattan or Deecee parks, signed up for none of the nature walks in the Appalachians, reserved no evening dinner cruises up the Potomac.
A short while later, after crossing the Potomac on the Wilson Bridge, he exited onto Indian Head Highway.
At the Gamebird Project, on the banks of the Potomac River, as at all the other projects run by the government, the resident workers were, though comparatively lavishly provided for and kept in luxury, sequestered, not allowed to leave the complex and grounds save in supervised groups for very necessary field trips or visits to their superiors elsewhere.
Potomac, was much otherwise, and the mortality among the labourers on the canal was frightful.
Lincoln is too busy with McClellan and the Army of the Potomac, and with the Trent affair and war with England, to yet apprise himself of a Tennessee River plan.
The gardens had their own plantsmen, a young couple from Potomac who apparently made a very nice living tending gardens around town.
Lee hampered with such a body of prisoners, since it was very doubtful if he could get his beaten army back across the Potomac, let alone his prisoners.
Many of the prisoners that came in from the Army of the Potomac repaid robbing equally well.
Some five thousand or six thousand new prisoners had come in since the first of the month, and it was claimed that the Raiders had received large reinforcements from those,--a claim rendered probable by most of the new-comers being from the Army of the Potomac.
Most of the prisoners from the Army of the Potomac were well dressed, and as very many died within a month or six weeks after their entrance, they left their clothes in pretty good condition for those who constituted themselves their heirs, administrators and assigns.
They were silent for a while, watching the Potomac and the rowers and listening to the sounds of the traffic high up on the bridge above them.
It righted itself as it slalomed into the parking lot and then crunched partially through the low stone wall overlooking a sheer cliff that fell all the way to the Potomac.
Here in Washington, the Army of the Potomac is now marching up and down, looking spiffier every day, and the Tycoon is beginning to get abuse for the Jacobins here and Greeley in the Tribune in New York for appointing a procrastinator as General-in-Chief.
The disparity between the number coming in from the Army of the Potomac and Western armies was so great, that we Westerners began to take some advantage of it.
Lee had retreated across the Potomac after Antietam with less than forty thousand men.