Potomac River Images

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Potomac River (Source)

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View of the Potomac River, Analostan Island, Georgetown, and, in the distance, buildings of the nascent City of Washington. (Engraving based on an 1801 watercolor by George Jacob Beck.) (Source)

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After an absence lasting many decades, the American Shad has recently returned to the Potomac. (Source)

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Several hundred bottle-nosed dolphins live six months of the year (from mid-April through mid-October) in the Potomac. Depicted here, a mother with her young. (Source)

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Eastern box turtles are frequently spotted along the towpath of the C&O Canal. (Source)

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Five-lined skink, juvenile (Source)

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The South Branch near South Branch Depot, West Virginia (Source)

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Confluence of the Cacapon River (barely visible) with the Potomac (Source)

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Oblique air photo, facing southwest, of the Potomac River flowing through water gaps in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Virginia on the left, Maryland on the right, West Virginia in upper right, including Harpers Ferry (partially obscured by Maryland Heights of Elk Ridge Mountain) at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers. (Source)

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Potomac River at Goose Creek (Source)

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The Great Falls of the Potomac, viewed from the Virginia bank of the river (Engraving based on an aquatint drawn by George Jacob Beck in 1802) (Source)

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Potomac near Occoquan Bay (Source)

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Map of land use in the watershed (Source)

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Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., viewed from across the Tidal Basin of the Potomac (Source)

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The Pentagon, looking northeast with the Potomac in the distance (Source)

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East Branch of the Potomac (now called the Anacostia River) near its confluence with the mainstem Potomac in Washington. (Watercolor drawn in 1839 by Augustus Kollner.) (Source)

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View of the Potomac from Mount Vernon (Source)

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Potomac River seen while landing at Reagan National Airport (Source)

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View northeast down the North Branch Potomac River from the Gorman-Gormania Bridge (U.S. Route 50) between Gormania, Grant County, West Virginia and Gorman, Garrett County, Maryland (Source)

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The North Branch Potomac River near Piedmont, WV (Source)

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The South Branch Potomac River near South Branch Depot, WV (Source)

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The South Branch of the Potomac River at Millesons Mill, WV (Source)

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Potomac River Watershed in West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland (Source)

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The Potomac River in Washington, D.C., with Arlington Memorial Bridge in the foreground and Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia in the background (Source)

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Map showing the five geological provinces through which the Potomac River flows[9] (Source)

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The North Branch between Cumberland, Maryland, and Ridgeley, West Virginia, in 2007 (Source)

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Canoeists at Hanging Rocks on the South Branch in the 1890s (Source)

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Confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah at Harpers Ferry (Source)

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Captain John Smith's 1608 map (Source)

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Tundra swans were the predominant species of swan on the Potomac River when the Algonquian tribes dwelled along its shores, and continue to be the most populous variety today.[18] (Source)

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View of the Potomac River from George Washington's birthplace in Westmoreland County, Virginia (Source)

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The Potomac running next to the Lincoln Memorial and under the Arlington Memorial Bridge (Source)

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Map of the Potomac River and its environs c.1862 by Robert Knox Sneden (Source)

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The Potomac River surges over the deck of Chain Bridge during the historic 1936 flood. The bridge was so severely damaged by the raging water, and the debris it carried, that its superstructure had to be re-built; the new bridge was opened to traffic in 1939. (This photograph was taken from a vantage point on Glebe Road in Arlington County, Virginia. The houses on the bluffs in the background are located on the Potomac Palisades of Washington, DC.) (Source)

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Eutrophication in the Potomac River is evident from this bright green water in Washington, D.C., caused by a dense bloom of cyanobacteria, April 2012. (Source)

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This chart displays the Annual Mean Discharge of the Potomac River measured at Little Falls, Maryland for Water Years 19312017 (in cubic feet per second). Source of data: USGS.[2] (Source)

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