List of cities and towns along the Potomac River
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This is a list of cities, towns, and communities along the Potomac River
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  • Alexandria, Virginia
    Alexandria, Virginia
    Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2009, the city had a total population of 139,966. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately six miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as well as...

  • Arlington, Virginia
  • Belle Haven, Virginia
    Belle Haven, Fairfax County, Virginia
    Belle Haven is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Nearby CDPs are Huntington, Virginia , Groveton, Virginia and Fort Hunt, Virginia . The population was 6,518 at the 2010 census....

  • Bolivar, West Virginia
    Bolivar, West Virginia
    Bolivar is a town in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. The population was 1,045 at the 2000 census. Originally known as Mudfort, Bolivar was granted a charter as a town by the Virginia General Assembly in December 1825...

  • Brookmont, Maryland
    Brookmont, Maryland
    Brookmont is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.-Geography:As an unincorporated area, Brookmont's boundaries are not officially defined...

  • Brunswick, Maryland
    Brunswick, Maryland
    Brunswick is a city in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 5,870 at the 2010 census.- History :The area now known as Brunswick was originally home to the Susquehanna Indians. In 1728 the first settlement was built, and the region became known as Eel Town, because the...

  • Cabin John, Maryland
    Cabin John, Maryland
    Cabin John is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The placename is a corruption of its original name of "Captain John's Mills."-Geography:...

  • Campbells, West Virginia
    Campbells, West Virginia
    Campbells is an unincorporated community in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia along the old Western Maryland Railroad line on the Potomac River. Campbells is accessible by way of Doe Gulley Lane from Doe Gully to its east. Because of its past function as a station on the railroad,...

  • Carderock, Maryland
    Carderock, Maryland
    Carderock, Maryland, is located in Montgomery County, Maryland, along the Potomac River. Carderock is just west of Bethesda.It is the location of a division of the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center ....

  • Cherry Run, West Virginia
    Cherry Run, West Virginia
    Cherry Run is a small unincorporated hamlet located along the CSX Transportation mainline on the Potomac River in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The community is named for the stream, Cherry Run, that meets the Potomac in its vicinity...

  • Colonial Beach, Virginia
    Colonial Beach, Virginia
    Colonial Beach is a town in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States. The population was 3,228 at the 2000 census. Possessing the second largest beach front in the state, Colonial Beach was a popular resort town in the early to mid-20th century, before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge made ocean...

  • Dahlgren, Virginia
    Dahlgren, Virginia
    Dahlgren is a census-designated place in King George County, Virginia, United States. The population was 997 at the 2000 census. The community is located within the Northern Neck George Washington Birthplace American Viticultural Area winemaking appellation established by the United States...

  • Darnestown, Maryland
    Darnestown, Maryland
    Darnestown is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.-Geography:As an unincorporated area, Darnestown's boundaries are not officially defined...

  • Fairview Beach, Virginia
    Fairview Beach, Virginia
    Fairview Beach is a census-designated place in King George County, Virginia, United States. The population was 230 at the 2000 census. It is located within the Northern Neck George Washington Birthplace American Viticultural Area winemaking appellation....

  • Falling Waters, West Virginia
    Falling Waters, West Virginia
    Falling Waters is an unincorporated census-designated place on the Potomac River in Berkeley County, West Virginia. It is located along Williamsport Pike north of Martinsburg. According to the 2010 census, Falling Waters has a population of 876....

  • Forest Heights, Maryland
    Forest Heights, Maryland
    Forest Heights, officially the Town of Forest Heights is a town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, with an African-American majority population, and part of the larger postal designation Oxon Hill, MD. Students attend Oxon Hill High School. The town straddles both sides of...

  • Fort Belvoir, Virginia
  • Fort Hunt, Virginia
    Fort Hunt, Virginia
    Fort Hunt is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. . It is one of the wealthiest places in the United States with a median household income surpassing that of Greenwich, Connecticut and Malibu, California, and is most famous for the site of former P.O...

  • Fort Washington, Maryland
    Fort Washington, Maryland
    Fort Washington, Maryland is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland in the suburbs of the capital city of the United States of America, Washington, D.C., south of the downtown district. It is a prosperous community with an African American majority...

  • Georgetown, District of Columbia
  • Glen Echo, Maryland
    Glen Echo, Maryland
    Glen Echo is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, that was chartered in 1904. The population was 242 at the 2000 census.Glen Echo derives its name from Edward and Edwin Baltzley, who came up with name circa 1888...

  • Great Cacapon, West Virginia
    Great Cacapon, West Virginia
    Great Cacapon, pronounced , is an unincorporated census-designated place in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. As of the 2010 census, its population was 386....

  • Great Falls, Virginia
    Great Falls, Virginia
    Great Falls is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 15,427 at the 2010 census.Although primarily a bedroom community for Washington, D.C., one major attraction is Great Falls Park which overlooks the Great Falls of the Potomac River, for which...

  • Green Ridge, West Virginia
    Green Ridge, West Virginia
    Green Ridge is a now uninhabited railroad community in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia on the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mainline where the Western Maryland Railroad crosses the Potomac River from the Stickpile Tunnel in Maryland. Green Ridge was originally known as Baird and...

  • Groveton, Virginia
    Groveton, Virginia
    Groveton is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Nearby CDPs are Mount Vernon, Virginia , Belle Haven, Fairfax County, Virginia and Hybla Valley, Virginia . The population was 14,598 at the 2010 census, down from 21,296 in 2000 due to a reduction in area...

  • Hancock, Maryland
    Hancock, Maryland
    Hancock is a town in Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,725 at the 2000 census. The Western Maryland community is notable for being located at the narrowest part of the state...

  • Hancock, West Virginia
    Hancock, West Virginia
    Hancock is an unincorporated hamlet in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. It is located off of Hancock Road on River Road along the Potomac River north of Berkeley Springs...

  • Hansrote, West Virginia
    Hansrote, West Virginia
    Hansrote is an unincorporated village in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia located along the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mainline on the Potomac River. Hansrote is northeast of Magnolia and southwest of Doe Gully...

  • Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
    Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
    Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. In many books the town is called "Harper's Ferry" with an apostrophe....

  • Huntington, Virginia
    Huntington, Virginia
    Huntington is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 11,267 at the 2010 census. To the east is Belle Haven, Fairfax County, Virginia and to the south Groveton, Virginia. Its main component is the namesake Huntington subdivision, a late-1940s...

  • Indian Head, Maryland
    Indian Head, Maryland
    Indian Head is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The population was 3,422 at the 2000 census. It has been the site of a naval base specializing in gun and rocket propellants since 1890. Production of nitrocellulose and smokeless powder began at the Indian Head Powder Factory in 1900...

  • Jerome, West Virginia
    Jerome, West Virginia
    Jerome is an uninhabited community along the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad main line in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located entirely within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park on the Potomac River...

  • Langley, Virginia
    Langley, Virginia
    Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.The community was essentially absorbed into McLean many years ago, although there is still a Langley High School...

  • Leesburg, Virginia
    Leesburg, Virginia
    Leesburg is a historic town in, and county seat of, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States of America. Leesburg is located west-northwest of Washington, D.C. along the base of the Catoctin Mountain and adjacent to the Potomac River. Its population according the 2010 Census is 42,616...

  • Lewisetta, Virginia
    Lewisetta, Virginia
    Lewisetta is an unincorporated village on Travis Point in Northumberland County, Virginia. Lewisetta is located on the tidal Potomac River. It is also atthe point where the 38th parallel meets the mainland of Virginia.- Historic sites :...

  • Lineburg, West Virginia
    Lineburg, West Virginia
    Lineburg is an unincorporated community in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Lineburg lies on the western flanks of Sideling Hill on the Turkey Foot Bend of the Potomac River. The community originally served as a station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but...

  • Little Cacapon, West Virginia
    Little Cacapon, West Virginia
    Little Cacapon is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Little Cacapon is located at the mouth of the Little Cacapon River on the Potomac, east of Okonoko. Okonoko-Little Cacapon Road and Spring Gap-Neals Run Road converge south of Little Cacapon...

  • Little Georgetown, West Virginia
    Little Georgetown, West Virginia
    Little Georgetown is a small unincorporated community along the Potomac River in Berkeley County, West Virginia. It is located northeast of Hedgesville and Georgetown....

  • Little Orleans, Maryland
    Little Orleans, Maryland
    Little Orleans is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland. Little Orleans is located on the Potomac River at the mouth of Fifteenmile Creek across from Orleans Cross Roads, West Virginia. Little Orleans was served by the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and by the Western Maryland...

  • Loudoun Heights, Virginia
    Loudoun Heights, Virginia
    Loudoun Heights is an unincorporated village in Loudoun County, Virginia near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. It is located in the Between the Hills region of the county along Harpers Ferry Road and is bounded to its northwest and northeast by the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park on the...

  • Magnolia, West Virginia
    Magnolia, West Virginia
    Magnolia is an unincorporated hamlet northeast of Paw Paw in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia on the Potomac River. Magnolia is located along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mainline and east of where the Western Maryland Railroad crosses the Potomac, bypassing a series of bends in...

  • Mason Neck, Virginia
    Mason Neck, Virginia
    Mason Neck is a peninsula jutting into the Potomac River to the south of Washington, DC. It is surrounded also by Belmont Bay to the west, Gunston Cove to the east, and Pohick Bay to the northeast...

  • McLean, Virginia
    McLean, Virginia
    McLean is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. The community had a total population of 48,115 as of the 2010 census....

  • Morgantown, Maryland
    Morgantown, Maryland
    Morgantown is an unincorporated community in Charles County, Maryland. It lies south of the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge on the Potomac River at Lower Cedar Point. It is known for the Mirant Morgantown Generating Station smokestacks. In 2007, a controversial coal barge loading facility...

  • Mount Vernon, Virginia
    Mount Vernon, Virginia
    Mount Vernon is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Nearby CDPs are Fort Belvoir , Groveton, Virginia and Hybla Valley, Virginia , and Fort Hunt, Virginia...

  • Okonoko, West Virginia
    Okonoko, West Virginia
    Okonoko is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Okonoko is located north of Levels on the Potomac River at Bright's Hollow...

  • Orleans Cross Roads, West Virginia
    Orleans Cross Roads, West Virginia
    Orleans Cross Roads is an unincorporated hamlet that lies on the western flanks of Sideling Hill on the Potomac River in Morgan County, West Virginia. To its south, Rockwell Run, a mountain stream fed by springs, empties into the Potomac. Orleans Cross Roads lies along the old Baltimore and Ohio...

  • Paw Paw, West Virginia
    Paw Paw, West Virginia
    Paw Paw is a town in Morgan County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 524 at the 2000 census. The town is known for the nearby Paw Paw Tunnel. Paw Paw was incorporated by the Circuit Court of Morgan County on April 8, 1891 and named for the pawpaw, a wild fruit which formerly grew in...

  • Point Lookout, Maryland
    Point Lookout, Maryland
    Point Lookout is a Maryland state park at the southern tip of St. Mary's County, Maryland. It is a peninsula formed by the confluence of the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River....

  • Point of Rocks, Maryland
    Point of Rocks, Maryland
    Point of Rocks is a community in Frederick County, Maryland. It is named for the striking rock formation on the adjacent Catoctin Mountain, which were formed by the Potomac River cutting through the ridge in a water gap, a typical formation in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians...

  • Potomac, Maryland
    Potomac, Maryland
    Potomac is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, named for the nearby Potomac River. The population was 44,822 at the 2000 census. The Potomac area is known for its very affluent and highly-educated residents. In 2009 CNNMoney.com listed Potomac as the fourth...

  • Potomac Heights, Maryland
  • Quantico, Virginia
    Quantico, Virginia
    - Demographics :As of the census of 2000, there are 561 people, 295 households, and 107 families living in the town. The population density is . There are 359 housing units at an average density of .-Racial composition:...

  • Redrock Crossing, West Virginia
    Redrock Crossing, West Virginia
    Redrock Crossing is an unincorporated community on the Potomac River in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Redrock Crossing lies on River Road between the communities of Hancock and Sleepy Creek....

  • River Creek, Virginia
    River Creek, Virginia
    River Creek is a planned community in Loudoun County, Virginia, located 30 miles west of Washington, D.C. and north of Leesburg at the confluence of the Potomac River and Goose Creek. It is recognized as the first gated country club community in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area...

  • Shepherdstown, West Virginia
    Shepherdstown, West Virginia
    Shepherdstown is a town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States, located along the Potomac River. It is the oldest town in the state, having been chartered in 1762 by Colonial Virginia's General Assembly. Since 1863, Shepherdstown has been in West Virginia, and is the oldest town in...

  • Sir Johns Run, West Virginia
    Sir Johns Run, West Virginia
    Sir Johns Run is an unincorporated hamlet at the mouth of Sir Johns Run on the Potomac River in Morgan County, West Virginia northwest of Berkeley Springs. It is bound to its west by the Widmeyer Wildlife Management Area and to its east by Warm Springs Ridge...

  • Sleepy Creek, West Virginia
    Sleepy Creek, West Virginia
    Sleepy Creek is an unincorporated community in Morgan County, West Virginia on the Potomac River at the mouth of Sleepy Creek. By 1860, Sleepy Creek had a post office and functioned as an important station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad....

  • South Branch Depot, West Virginia
    South Branch Depot, West Virginia
    South Branch Depot is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Originally known as Forks of Potomac because of its proximity to the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Potomac River and then later in the early 20th century as French's Station...

  • Sterling, Virginia
    Sterling, Virginia
    Sterling, Virginia is a census-designated place in Loudoun County, Virginia. The population as of the 2010 Census was 27,822.It is located northwest of Herndon, east of Ashburn, and west of Great Falls, and includes part of Dulles International Airport and the former AOL corporate headquarters...

  • Town Creek, Maryland
    Town Creek, Maryland
    Town Creek is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland. Town Creek lies on the Potomac River within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park across the river from Okonoko, West Virginia. Town Creek takes its name from a nearby stream....

  • Travilah, Maryland
    Travilah, Maryland
    Travilah is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States and near the wealthy suburban community of Potomac.-Geography:As an unincorporated area, Travilah's boundaries are not officially defined...

  • Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

  • Williamsport, Maryland
    Williamsport, Maryland
    Williamsport is a town in Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,868 at the 2000 census and 2,278 as of July 2008.-Geography: Williamsport is located at ....

  • Woodmont, West Virginia
    Woodmont, West Virginia
    Woodmont is an unincorporated community on the Potomac River in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Woodmont lies to the immediate west of the hamlet of Great Cacapon....


District of Columbia

  • Georgetown
  • Washington
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....


Maryland

  • Brookmont
    Brookmont, Maryland
    Brookmont is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.-Geography:As an unincorporated area, Brookmont's boundaries are not officially defined...

  • Brunswick
    Brunswick, Maryland
    Brunswick is a city in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 5,870 at the 2010 census.- History :The area now known as Brunswick was originally home to the Susquehanna Indians. In 1728 the first settlement was built, and the region became known as Eel Town, because the...

  • Cabin John
    Cabin John, Maryland
    Cabin John is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The placename is a corruption of its original name of "Captain John's Mills."-Geography:...

  • Carderock
    Carderock, Maryland
    Carderock, Maryland, is located in Montgomery County, Maryland, along the Potomac River. Carderock is just west of Bethesda.It is the location of a division of the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center ....

  • Darnestown
    Darnestown, Maryland
    Darnestown is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.-Geography:As an unincorporated area, Darnestown's boundaries are not officially defined...

  • Forest Heights
    Forest Heights, Maryland
    Forest Heights, officially the Town of Forest Heights is a town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, with an African-American majority population, and part of the larger postal designation Oxon Hill, MD. Students attend Oxon Hill High School. The town straddles both sides of...

  • Fort Washington
    Fort Washington, Maryland
    Fort Washington, Maryland is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland in the suburbs of the capital city of the United States of America, Washington, D.C., south of the downtown district. It is a prosperous community with an African American majority...

  • Glen Echo
    Glen Echo, Maryland
    Glen Echo is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, that was chartered in 1904. The population was 242 at the 2000 census.Glen Echo derives its name from Edward and Edwin Baltzley, who came up with name circa 1888...

  • Hancock
    Hancock, Maryland
    Hancock is a town in Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,725 at the 2000 census. The Western Maryland community is notable for being located at the narrowest part of the state...

  • Indian Head
    Indian Head, Maryland
    Indian Head is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The population was 3,422 at the 2000 census. It has been the site of a naval base specializing in gun and rocket propellants since 1890. Production of nitrocellulose and smokeless powder began at the Indian Head Powder Factory in 1900...

  • Little Orleans
    Little Orleans, Maryland
    Little Orleans is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland. Little Orleans is located on the Potomac River at the mouth of Fifteenmile Creek across from Orleans Cross Roads, West Virginia. Little Orleans was served by the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and by the Western Maryland...

  • Morgantown
    Morgantown, Maryland
    Morgantown is an unincorporated community in Charles County, Maryland. It lies south of the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge on the Potomac River at Lower Cedar Point. It is known for the Mirant Morgantown Generating Station smokestacks. In 2007, a controversial coal barge loading facility...

  • Point Lookout
    Point Lookout, Maryland
    Point Lookout is a Maryland state park at the southern tip of St. Mary's County, Maryland. It is a peninsula formed by the confluence of the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River....

  • Point of Rocks
    Point of Rocks, Maryland
    Point of Rocks is a community in Frederick County, Maryland. It is named for the striking rock formation on the adjacent Catoctin Mountain, which were formed by the Potomac River cutting through the ridge in a water gap, a typical formation in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians...

  • Potomac
    Potomac, Maryland
    Potomac is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, named for the nearby Potomac River. The population was 44,822 at the 2000 census. The Potomac area is known for its very affluent and highly-educated residents. In 2009 CNNMoney.com listed Potomac as the fourth...

  • Potomac Heights
  • Town Creek
    Town Creek, Maryland
    Town Creek is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland. Town Creek lies on the Potomac River within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park across the river from Okonoko, West Virginia. Town Creek takes its name from a nearby stream....

  • Travilah
    Travilah, Maryland
    Travilah is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States and near the wealthy suburban community of Potomac.-Geography:As an unincorporated area, Travilah's boundaries are not officially defined...

  • Williamsport
    Williamsport, Maryland
    Williamsport is a town in Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,868 at the 2000 census and 2,278 as of July 2008.-Geography: Williamsport is located at ....


Virginia

  • Alexandria
    Alexandria, Virginia
    Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2009, the city had a total population of 139,966. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately six miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as well as...

  • Arlington
  • Belle Haven
    Belle Haven, Fairfax County, Virginia
    Belle Haven is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Nearby CDPs are Huntington, Virginia , Groveton, Virginia and Fort Hunt, Virginia . The population was 6,518 at the 2010 census....

  • Colonial Beach
    Colonial Beach, Virginia
    Colonial Beach is a town in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States. The population was 3,228 at the 2000 census. Possessing the second largest beach front in the state, Colonial Beach was a popular resort town in the early to mid-20th century, before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge made ocean...

  • Dahlgren
    Dahlgren, Virginia
    Dahlgren is a census-designated place in King George County, Virginia, United States. The population was 997 at the 2000 census. The community is located within the Northern Neck George Washington Birthplace American Viticultural Area winemaking appellation established by the United States...

  • Fairview Beach
    Fairview Beach, Virginia
    Fairview Beach is a census-designated place in King George County, Virginia, United States. The population was 230 at the 2000 census. It is located within the Northern Neck George Washington Birthplace American Viticultural Area winemaking appellation....

  • Fort Belvoir
  • Fort Hunt
    Fort Hunt, Virginia
    Fort Hunt is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. . It is one of the wealthiest places in the United States with a median household income surpassing that of Greenwich, Connecticut and Malibu, California, and is most famous for the site of former P.O...

  • Great Falls
    Great Falls, Virginia
    Great Falls is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 15,427 at the 2010 census.Although primarily a bedroom community for Washington, D.C., one major attraction is Great Falls Park which overlooks the Great Falls of the Potomac River, for which...

  • Groveton
    Groveton, Virginia
    Groveton is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Nearby CDPs are Mount Vernon, Virginia , Belle Haven, Fairfax County, Virginia and Hybla Valley, Virginia . The population was 14,598 at the 2010 census, down from 21,296 in 2000 due to a reduction in area...

  • Huntington
    Huntington, Virginia
    Huntington is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 11,267 at the 2010 census. To the east is Belle Haven, Fairfax County, Virginia and to the south Groveton, Virginia. Its main component is the namesake Huntington subdivision, a late-1940s...

  • Langley
    Langley, Virginia
    Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.The community was essentially absorbed into McLean many years ago, although there is still a Langley High School...

  • Leesburg
    Leesburg, Virginia
    Leesburg is a historic town in, and county seat of, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States of America. Leesburg is located west-northwest of Washington, D.C. along the base of the Catoctin Mountain and adjacent to the Potomac River. Its population according the 2010 Census is 42,616...

  • Lewisetta
    Lewisetta, Virginia
    Lewisetta is an unincorporated village on Travis Point in Northumberland County, Virginia. Lewisetta is located on the tidal Potomac River. It is also atthe point where the 38th parallel meets the mainland of Virginia.- Historic sites :...

  • Loudoun Heights
    Loudoun Heights, Virginia
    Loudoun Heights is an unincorporated village in Loudoun County, Virginia near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. It is located in the Between the Hills region of the county along Harpers Ferry Road and is bounded to its northwest and northeast by the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park on the...

  • Mason Neck
    Mason Neck, Virginia
    Mason Neck is a peninsula jutting into the Potomac River to the south of Washington, DC. It is surrounded also by Belmont Bay to the west, Gunston Cove to the east, and Pohick Bay to the northeast...

  • McLean
    McLean, Virginia
    McLean is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. The community had a total population of 48,115 as of the 2010 census....

  • Mount Vernon
    Mount Vernon, Virginia
    Mount Vernon is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Nearby CDPs are Fort Belvoir , Groveton, Virginia and Hybla Valley, Virginia , and Fort Hunt, Virginia...

  • Quantico
    Quantico, Virginia
    - Demographics :As of the census of 2000, there are 561 people, 295 households, and 107 families living in the town. The population density is . There are 359 housing units at an average density of .-Racial composition:...


West Virginia

  • Bolivar
    Bolivar, West Virginia
    Bolivar is a town in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. The population was 1,045 at the 2000 census. Originally known as Mudfort, Bolivar was granted a charter as a town by the Virginia General Assembly in December 1825...

  • Campbells
    Campbells, West Virginia
    Campbells is an unincorporated community in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia along the old Western Maryland Railroad line on the Potomac River. Campbells is accessible by way of Doe Gulley Lane from Doe Gully to its east. Because of its past function as a station on the railroad,...

  • Cherry Run
    Cherry Run, West Virginia
    Cherry Run is a small unincorporated hamlet located along the CSX Transportation mainline on the Potomac River in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The community is named for the stream, Cherry Run, that meets the Potomac in its vicinity...

  • Falling Waters
    Falling Waters, West Virginia
    Falling Waters is an unincorporated census-designated place on the Potomac River in Berkeley County, West Virginia. It is located along Williamsport Pike north of Martinsburg. According to the 2010 census, Falling Waters has a population of 876....

  • Great Cacapon
    Great Cacapon, West Virginia
    Great Cacapon, pronounced , is an unincorporated census-designated place in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. As of the 2010 census, its population was 386....

  • Green Ridge
    Green Ridge, West Virginia
    Green Ridge is a now uninhabited railroad community in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia on the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mainline where the Western Maryland Railroad crosses the Potomac River from the Stickpile Tunnel in Maryland. Green Ridge was originally known as Baird and...

  • Hancock
    Hancock, West Virginia
    Hancock is an unincorporated hamlet in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. It is located off of Hancock Road on River Road along the Potomac River north of Berkeley Springs...

  • Hansrote
    Hansrote, West Virginia
    Hansrote is an unincorporated village in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia located along the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mainline on the Potomac River. Hansrote is northeast of Magnolia and southwest of Doe Gully...

  • Harpers Ferry
    Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
    Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. In many books the town is called "Harper's Ferry" with an apostrophe....

  • Lineburg
    Lineburg, West Virginia
    Lineburg is an unincorporated community in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Lineburg lies on the western flanks of Sideling Hill on the Turkey Foot Bend of the Potomac River. The community originally served as a station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but...

  • Little Cacapon
    Little Cacapon, West Virginia
    Little Cacapon is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Little Cacapon is located at the mouth of the Little Cacapon River on the Potomac, east of Okonoko. Okonoko-Little Cacapon Road and Spring Gap-Neals Run Road converge south of Little Cacapon...

  • Little Georgetown
    Little Georgetown, West Virginia
    Little Georgetown is a small unincorporated community along the Potomac River in Berkeley County, West Virginia. It is located northeast of Hedgesville and Georgetown....

  • Magnolia
    Magnolia, West Virginia
    Magnolia is an unincorporated hamlet northeast of Paw Paw in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia on the Potomac River. Magnolia is located along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mainline and east of where the Western Maryland Railroad crosses the Potomac, bypassing a series of bends in...

  • Okonoko
    Okonoko, West Virginia
    Okonoko is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Okonoko is located north of Levels on the Potomac River at Bright's Hollow...

  • Orleans Cross Roads
    Orleans Cross Roads, West Virginia
    Orleans Cross Roads is an unincorporated hamlet that lies on the western flanks of Sideling Hill on the Potomac River in Morgan County, West Virginia. To its south, Rockwell Run, a mountain stream fed by springs, empties into the Potomac. Orleans Cross Roads lies along the old Baltimore and Ohio...

  • Paw Paw
    Paw Paw, West Virginia
    Paw Paw is a town in Morgan County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 524 at the 2000 census. The town is known for the nearby Paw Paw Tunnel. Paw Paw was incorporated by the Circuit Court of Morgan County on April 8, 1891 and named for the pawpaw, a wild fruit which formerly grew in...

  • Redrock Crossing
    Redrock Crossing, West Virginia
    Redrock Crossing is an unincorporated community on the Potomac River in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Redrock Crossing lies on River Road between the communities of Hancock and Sleepy Creek....

  • Shepherdstown
    Shepherdstown, West Virginia
    Shepherdstown is a town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States, located along the Potomac River. It is the oldest town in the state, having been chartered in 1762 by Colonial Virginia's General Assembly. Since 1863, Shepherdstown has been in West Virginia, and is the oldest town in...

  • Sir Johns Run
    Sir Johns Run, West Virginia
    Sir Johns Run is an unincorporated hamlet at the mouth of Sir Johns Run on the Potomac River in Morgan County, West Virginia northwest of Berkeley Springs. It is bound to its west by the Widmeyer Wildlife Management Area and to its east by Warm Springs Ridge...

  • Sleepy Creek
    Sleepy Creek, West Virginia
    Sleepy Creek is an unincorporated community in Morgan County, West Virginia on the Potomac River at the mouth of Sleepy Creek. By 1860, Sleepy Creek had a post office and functioned as an important station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad....

  • South Branch Depot
    South Branch Depot, West Virginia
    South Branch Depot is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Originally known as Forks of Potomac because of its proximity to the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Potomac River and then later in the early 20th century as French's Station...

  • Woodmont
    Woodmont, West Virginia
    Woodmont is an unincorporated community on the Potomac River in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Woodmont lies to the immediate west of the hamlet of Great Cacapon....


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  • Barnum, West Virginia
    Barnum, West Virginia
    Barnum is an unincorporated town in Mineral County, West Virginia, USA. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Barnum lies on the North Branch Potomac River along a line of the Western Maryland Railroad no longer in operation...

  • Bayard, West Virginia
    Bayard, West Virginia
    Bayard is a town in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 299 at the 2000 census. Bayard was incorporated in 1893 and named in honor of Thomas F. Bayard, Jr., who later became a United States Senator from Delaware . Bayard was founded on the West Virginia Central and...

  • Beryl, West Virginia
    Beryl, West Virginia
    Beryl was a once thriving town, but homes and properties were slowly purchased over the years by Westvaco paper company. By the late 1900s, all the residents were gone, and the last standing home became an office for the Westvaco woodyard. Currently, only New Page Paper and Kingsford Charcoal...

  • Blaine, West Virginia
    Blaine, West Virginia
    Blaine is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, USA. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. It lies near the intersection of the North Branch Potomac River and West Virginia Route 42. This used to be a city, now it has 30 houses. Max. It also...

  • Bloomington, Maryland
    Bloomington, Maryland
    Bloomington is an unincorporated town at the confluence of the North Branch Potomac River and Savage River in southeastern Garrett County, Maryland...

  • Carpendale, West Virginia
    Carpendale, West Virginia
    Carpendale is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States, and part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 954 at the 2000 census. Carpendale was incorporated on January 2, 1990 by the Circuit Court. The town is a combination of three subdivisions...

  • Cresaptown, Maryland
    Cresaptown, Maryland
    Cresaptown is a community located in Allegany County, Maryland, United States of America. It is an unincorporated community which, for United States Census Bureau purposes, is united with Bel Air to form the census-designated place of Cresaptown-Bel Air. Cresaptown's post office was established...

  • Cumberland, Maryland
    Cumberland, Maryland
    Cumberland is a city in the far western, Appalachian portion of Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Allegany County, and the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 20,859, and the metropolitan area had a...

  • Dans Run, West Virginia
    Dans Run, West Virginia
    Dans Run is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Dans Run is located along the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at the confluence of Dans Run and the North Branch Potomac River....

  • Forge Hill, West Virginia
    Forge Hill, West Virginia
    Forge Hill is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, USA. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Forge Hill lies to the northeast of the City of Keyser on a hill of the same name overlooking the North Branch Potomac River....

  • Gorman, Maryland
    Gorman, Maryland
    Gorman is an unincorporated town along the North Branch Potomac River in southern Garrett County, Maryland. Gorman lies on Gorman Road off the Northwestern Turnpike , which crosses the North Branch into Gormania, West Virginia via Gormania Bridge. Like Gormania, the town is named for United States...

  • Gormania, West Virginia
    Gormania, West Virginia
    Gormania is an unincorporated community along the North Branch Potomac River in Grant County, West Virginia. Gormania lies on the Northwestern Turnpike , which crosses the North Branch into Gorman, Maryland via Gormania Bridge. It is named for United States Senator from Maryland, Arthur P. Gorman...

  • Green Spring, West Virginia
    Green Spring, West Virginia
    Green Spring is an unincorporated census-designated place and railroad town in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 218. Green Spring is located north of Springfield on Green Spring Road near the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Potomac...

  • Hampshire, West Virginia
    Hampshire, West Virginia
    Hampshire is an unincorporated town on the North Branch Potomac River in Mineral County, West Virginia. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located to the south of Bloomington and to the west of Beryl....

  • Henry, West Virginia
    Henry, West Virginia
    Henry is an unincorporated community on West Virginia Route 90 in northwestern Grant County, West Virginia, USA. Henry lies on Elk Creek shortly before its confluence with the North Branch Potomac River. It is famous for the Henry Bicentennial Chicken Herding Competition....

  • Keyser, West Virginia
    Keyser, West Virginia
    Keyser is a city in and the county seat of Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,303 at the 2000 census.- History :...

  • Kitzmiller, Maryland
    Kitzmiller, Maryland
    Kitzmiller is a town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States. The population was 302 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Kitzmiller is located at ....

  • Luke, Maryland
    Luke, Maryland
    Luke is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, United States located along the Georges Creek Valley. Known originally as West Piedmont, the town is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 80 at the 2000 census....

  • McCoole, Maryland
    McCoole, Maryland
    McCoole is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland, USA. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 220 and the east end of Maryland Route 135. McCoole lies directly across the North Branch Potomac River from Keyser, West Virginia. McCoole had its own post office in operation...

  • Oldtown, Maryland
    Oldtown, Maryland
    Oldtown is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland along the North Branch Potomac River founded in 18th century colonial times. The settlement was initially called "Shawanese Old Town" because it was the site of a Shawnee Amerindian village abandoned about a decade earlier...

  • Patterson Creek, West Virginia
    Patterson Creek, West Virginia
    Patterson Creek is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, USA. It lies at the northeastern end of the county, and is named for Patterson Creek which empties into the North Branch Potomac River here....

  • Piedmont, West Virginia
    Piedmont, West Virginia
    Piedmont is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 1,014 at the 2000 census. Piedmont was chartered in 1856...

  • Pinto, Maryland
    Pinto, Maryland
    Pinto is an unincorporated community along the North Branch Potomac River in Allegany County, Maryland across from Rocket Center, West Virginia. While the town is officially named Potomac, its post office is referred to as Pinto because there already exists a Potomac, Maryland. Pinto is located...

  • Potomac Park, Maryland
    Potomac Park, Maryland
    Potomac Park is an unincorporated subdivision located on the North Branch Potomac River in Allegany County, Maryland. Potomac Park lies along McMullen Highway between Cresaptown and Cumberland.- See also :Regional Businesses...

  • Rawlings, Maryland
    Rawlings, Maryland
    Rawlings is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland, United States, on the McMullen Highway . It was originally known as Rawlings Station after a post office was established on the railroad there on March 7, 1856....

  • Ridgeley, West Virginia
    Ridgeley, West Virginia
    Ridgeley is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States, and part of the Cumberland Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 762 at the 2000 census but has fallen to 575 with the 2010 census....

  • Rocket Center, West Virginia
    Rocket Center, West Virginia
    Rocket Center, West Virginia is the site of a government installation known as Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, part of the Naval Sea Systems Command which is currently operated by Alliant Techsystems. Rocket Center shares a ZIP Code with Keyser but is located north along the North Branch Potomac...

  • Wagoner, West Virginia
    Wagoner, West Virginia
    Wagoner is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia. Wagoner lies along the North Branch Potomac River at Round Bottom Hollow between the communities of Dans Run and Green Spring. Wagoner is located at the northern terminus of West Virginia Secondary Route 15/2....

  • Westernport, Maryland
    Westernport, Maryland
    Westernport is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, United States, located along the Georges Creek Valley. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,104 at the 2000 census.-History:...

  • Wiley Ford, West Virginia
    Wiley Ford, West Virginia
    Wiley Ford is a census-designated place in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States and part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'...


Maryland

  • Bloomington
    Bloomington, Maryland
    Bloomington is an unincorporated town at the confluence of the North Branch Potomac River and Savage River in southeastern Garrett County, Maryland...

  • Cresaptown
    Cresaptown, Maryland
    Cresaptown is a community located in Allegany County, Maryland, United States of America. It is an unincorporated community which, for United States Census Bureau purposes, is united with Bel Air to form the census-designated place of Cresaptown-Bel Air. Cresaptown's post office was established...

  • Cumberland
    Cumberland, Maryland
    Cumberland is a city in the far western, Appalachian portion of Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Allegany County, and the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 20,859, and the metropolitan area had a...

  • Gorman
    Gorman, Maryland
    Gorman is an unincorporated town along the North Branch Potomac River in southern Garrett County, Maryland. Gorman lies on Gorman Road off the Northwestern Turnpike , which crosses the North Branch into Gormania, West Virginia via Gormania Bridge. Like Gormania, the town is named for United States...

  • Kitzmiller
    Kitzmiller, Maryland
    Kitzmiller is a town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States. The population was 302 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Kitzmiller is located at ....

  • Luke
    Luke, Maryland
    Luke is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, United States located along the Georges Creek Valley. Known originally as West Piedmont, the town is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 80 at the 2000 census....

  • McCoole
    McCoole, Maryland
    McCoole is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland, USA. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 220 and the east end of Maryland Route 135. McCoole lies directly across the North Branch Potomac River from Keyser, West Virginia. McCoole had its own post office in operation...

  • Oldtown
    Oldtown, Maryland
    Oldtown is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland along the North Branch Potomac River founded in 18th century colonial times. The settlement was initially called "Shawanese Old Town" because it was the site of a Shawnee Amerindian village abandoned about a decade earlier...

  • Pinto
    Pinto, Maryland
    Pinto is an unincorporated community along the North Branch Potomac River in Allegany County, Maryland across from Rocket Center, West Virginia. While the town is officially named Potomac, its post office is referred to as Pinto because there already exists a Potomac, Maryland. Pinto is located...

  • Potomac Park
    Potomac Park, Maryland
    Potomac Park is an unincorporated subdivision located on the North Branch Potomac River in Allegany County, Maryland. Potomac Park lies along McMullen Highway between Cresaptown and Cumberland.- See also :Regional Businesses...

  • Rawlings
    Rawlings, Maryland
    Rawlings is an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland, United States, on the McMullen Highway . It was originally known as Rawlings Station after a post office was established on the railroad there on March 7, 1856....

  • Westernport
    Westernport, Maryland
    Westernport is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, United States, located along the Georges Creek Valley. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,104 at the 2000 census.-History:...


West Virginia

  • Barnum
    Barnum, West Virginia
    Barnum is an unincorporated town in Mineral County, West Virginia, USA. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Barnum lies on the North Branch Potomac River along a line of the Western Maryland Railroad no longer in operation...

  • Bayard
    Bayard, West Virginia
    Bayard is a town in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 299 at the 2000 census. Bayard was incorporated in 1893 and named in honor of Thomas F. Bayard, Jr., who later became a United States Senator from Delaware . Bayard was founded on the West Virginia Central and...

  • Beryl
    Beryl, West Virginia
    Beryl was a once thriving town, but homes and properties were slowly purchased over the years by Westvaco paper company. By the late 1900s, all the residents were gone, and the last standing home became an office for the Westvaco woodyard. Currently, only New Page Paper and Kingsford Charcoal...

  • Blaine
    Blaine, West Virginia
    Blaine is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, USA. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. It lies near the intersection of the North Branch Potomac River and West Virginia Route 42. This used to be a city, now it has 30 houses. Max. It also...

  • Carpendale
    Carpendale, West Virginia
    Carpendale is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States, and part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 954 at the 2000 census. Carpendale was incorporated on January 2, 1990 by the Circuit Court. The town is a combination of three subdivisions...

  • Dans Run
    Dans Run, West Virginia
    Dans Run is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Dans Run is located along the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at the confluence of Dans Run and the North Branch Potomac River....

  • Forge Hill
    Forge Hill, West Virginia
    Forge Hill is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, USA. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Forge Hill lies to the northeast of the City of Keyser on a hill of the same name overlooking the North Branch Potomac River....

  • Gormania
    Gormania, West Virginia
    Gormania is an unincorporated community along the North Branch Potomac River in Grant County, West Virginia. Gormania lies on the Northwestern Turnpike , which crosses the North Branch into Gorman, Maryland via Gormania Bridge. It is named for United States Senator from Maryland, Arthur P. Gorman...

  • Green Spring
    Green Spring, West Virginia
    Green Spring is an unincorporated census-designated place and railroad town in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 218. Green Spring is located north of Springfield on Green Spring Road near the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Potomac...

  • Hampshire
    Hampshire, West Virginia
    Hampshire is an unincorporated town on the North Branch Potomac River in Mineral County, West Virginia. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located to the south of Bloomington and to the west of Beryl....

  • Henry
    Henry, West Virginia
    Henry is an unincorporated community on West Virginia Route 90 in northwestern Grant County, West Virginia, USA. Henry lies on Elk Creek shortly before its confluence with the North Branch Potomac River. It is famous for the Henry Bicentennial Chicken Herding Competition....

  • Keyser
    Keyser, West Virginia
    Keyser is a city in and the county seat of Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,303 at the 2000 census.- History :...

  • Patterson Creek
    Patterson Creek, West Virginia
    Patterson Creek is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, USA. It lies at the northeastern end of the county, and is named for Patterson Creek which empties into the North Branch Potomac River here....

  • Piedmont
    Piedmont, West Virginia
    Piedmont is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 1,014 at the 2000 census. Piedmont was chartered in 1856...

  • Ridgeley
    Ridgeley, West Virginia
    Ridgeley is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States, and part of the Cumberland Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 762 at the 2000 census but has fallen to 575 with the 2010 census....

  • Rocket Center
    Rocket Center, West Virginia
    Rocket Center, West Virginia is the site of a government installation known as Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, part of the Naval Sea Systems Command which is currently operated by Alliant Techsystems. Rocket Center shares a ZIP Code with Keyser but is located north along the North Branch Potomac...

  • Wagoner
    Wagoner, West Virginia
    Wagoner is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia. Wagoner lies along the North Branch Potomac River at Round Bottom Hollow between the communities of Dans Run and Green Spring. Wagoner is located at the northern terminus of West Virginia Secondary Route 15/2....

  • Wiley Ford
    Wiley Ford, West Virginia
    Wiley Ford is a census-designated place in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States and part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'...


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  • Blue Grass, Virginia
    Blue Grass, Virginia
    Blue Grass is an unincorporated community on VA 642 at its junction with VA 640 in Highland County, Virginia, United States. Blue Grass lies along the South Branch Potomac River. It was previously known as Crabbottom and Hulls Store before the Board on Geographic Names officially decided upon Blue...

  • Blues Beach, West Virginia
    Blues Beach, West Virginia
    Blue Beach is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Blue Beach is a predominantly river camp community located south of Springfield and north of Wappocomo on West Virginia Route 28 along the South Branch Potomac River...

  • Cave, West Virginia
    Cave, West Virginia
    Cave is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. It was so named because of a cave in the vicinity. A post office was established here in 1890. Cave is located on U.S. Route 220 along the South Branch Potomac River....

  • Cunningham, West Virginia
    Cunningham, West Virginia
    Cunningham is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. It lies north of Moorefield along the South Branch Valley Railroad and Trough Road on the eastern side of the South Branch Potomac River....

  • Durgon, West Virginia
    Durgon, West Virginia
    Durgon is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. Durgon is located on US 220/WV 28/WV 55 at its junction with County Route 220/5 west of Moorefield along the South Branch Potomac River....

  • Fisher, West Virginia
    Fisher, West Virginia
    Fisher is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River in Hardy County, West Virginia. It lies west of Moorefield. The precise origin of its name is unclear. It may be named generally for the Fisher family that lived in its vicinity, or more specifically for George Fisher, whose...

  • Franklin, West Virginia
    Franklin, West Virginia
    Franklin is a town in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 797 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pendleton County...

  • Glebe, West Virginia
    Glebe, West Virginia
    Glebe is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA. Glebe is situated at the mouth of the Trough on the South Branch Potomac River 9.5 miles southwest of Romney on South Branch River Road . The community received its name from the old stone glebehouse that was constructed...

  • Grace, West Virginia
    Grace, West Virginia
    Grace is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA. Grace lies at the intersection of Grace's Cabin Road and West Virginia Route 28 across the South Branch from Blues Beach....

  • Harper, West Virginia
  • Hightown, Virginia
    Hightown, Virginia
    Hightown is an unincorporated community at the crossroads of U.S. Route 250 and State Route 640 in Highland County, Virginia, United States. The main source of the South Branch Potomac River lies to the north of Hightown along State Route 640. It was originally known as Heveners Store. It is...

  • Ketterman, West Virginia
    Ketterman, West Virginia
    Ketterman is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA....

  • McNeill, West Virginia
    McNeill, West Virginia
    McNeill is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. It lies near the South Branch Potomac River on Trough Road ....

  • Millesons Mill, West Virginia
    Millesons Mill, West Virginia
    Millesons Mill is an unincorporated hamlet in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA. Millesons Mill is located between Springfield and Points on Springfield Pike along the South Branch Potomac River. Milleson Road meets Springfield Pike in Millesons Mill....

  • Moorefield, West Virginia
    Moorefield, West Virginia
    Moorefield is a town in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. Moorefield is the county seat of Hardy County. It was originally chartered in 1777 and named for Conrad Moore, who owned the land upon which the town was laid out...

  • New Hampden, Virginia
    New Hampden, Virginia
    New Hampden is an unincorporated community in Highland County, Virginia, United States. New Hampden is located on the South Branch Potomac River in Bluegrass Valley....

  • Old Fields, West Virginia
    Old Fields, West Virginia
    Old Fields is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River in northern Hardy County, West Virginia, USA.According to the Geographic Names Information System, Old Fields has also been known throughout its history as Indian Old Field, Indian Old Fields, and Oldfields.-History:The...

  • Pancake, West Virginia
    Pancake, West Virginia
    Pancake is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Pancake is located on Pancake Road , once connecting to South Branch River Road across the South Branch Potomac River. Pancake was once a stop along the South Branch Valley Railroad and is named for the...

  • Petersburg, West Virginia
    Petersburg, West Virginia
    Petersburg is a city in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,423 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Grant County.-History:...

  • Ridgedale, West Virginia
    Ridgedale, Hampshire County, West Virginia
    Ridgedale is an unincorporated area in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located within a horsehoe bend in the South Branch Potomac River between the communities of Blues Beach and Wappocomo. Ridgedale is named for the recently restored 1835 plantation built by George W....

  • Romney, West Virginia
    Romney, West Virginia
    Romney is a city in and the county seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,940 at the 2000 census, while the area covered by the city's ZIP code had a population of 5,873. It is a city with a very historic background dating back to the 18th century...

  • Ruddle, West Virginia
    Ruddle, West Virginia
    Ruddle is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. Ruddle lies along U.S. Highway 220. According to the Geographic Names Information System, Ruddle was originally known by the names of Ruddle Mill and Ruddle's Mill....

  • Sector, West Virginia
    Sector, West Virginia
    Sector is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located along the west bank of the South Branch Potomac River on Fleming-Sector Road across from Glebe....

  • Upper Tract, West Virginia
    Upper Tract, West Virginia
    Upper Tract is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. The community lies along U.S. Highway 220 at the confluence of Reeds Creek and the South Branch Potomac River....

  • Vanderlip, West Virginia
    Vanderlip, West Virginia
    Vanderlip is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Vanderlip is located west of Romney along the Northwestern Turnpike and the South Branch Valley Railroad. At times the community was referred to as West Romney Station, while its post office used the...

  • Wapocomo, West Virginia

Virginia

  • Blue Grass
    Blue Grass, Virginia
    Blue Grass is an unincorporated community on VA 642 at its junction with VA 640 in Highland County, Virginia, United States. Blue Grass lies along the South Branch Potomac River. It was previously known as Crabbottom and Hulls Store before the Board on Geographic Names officially decided upon Blue...

  • Hightown
    Hightown, Virginia
    Hightown is an unincorporated community at the crossroads of U.S. Route 250 and State Route 640 in Highland County, Virginia, United States. The main source of the South Branch Potomac River lies to the north of Hightown along State Route 640. It was originally known as Heveners Store. It is...

  • New Hampden
    New Hampden, Virginia
    New Hampden is an unincorporated community in Highland County, Virginia, United States. New Hampden is located on the South Branch Potomac River in Bluegrass Valley....


West Virginia

  • Blues Beach
    Blues Beach, West Virginia
    Blue Beach is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Blue Beach is a predominantly river camp community located south of Springfield and north of Wappocomo on West Virginia Route 28 along the South Branch Potomac River...

  • Cave
    Cave, West Virginia
    Cave is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. It was so named because of a cave in the vicinity. A post office was established here in 1890. Cave is located on U.S. Route 220 along the South Branch Potomac River....

  • Cunningham
    Cunningham, West Virginia
    Cunningham is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. It lies north of Moorefield along the South Branch Valley Railroad and Trough Road on the eastern side of the South Branch Potomac River....

  • Durgon
    Durgon, West Virginia
    Durgon is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. Durgon is located on US 220/WV 28/WV 55 at its junction with County Route 220/5 west of Moorefield along the South Branch Potomac River....

  • Fisher
    Fisher, West Virginia
    Fisher is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River in Hardy County, West Virginia. It lies west of Moorefield. The precise origin of its name is unclear. It may be named generally for the Fisher family that lived in its vicinity, or more specifically for George Fisher, whose...

  • Franklin
    Franklin, West Virginia
    Franklin is a town in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 797 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pendleton County...

  • Glebe
    Glebe, West Virginia
    Glebe is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA. Glebe is situated at the mouth of the Trough on the South Branch Potomac River 9.5 miles southwest of Romney on South Branch River Road . The community received its name from the old stone glebehouse that was constructed...

  • Grace
    Grace, West Virginia
    Grace is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA. Grace lies at the intersection of Grace's Cabin Road and West Virginia Route 28 across the South Branch from Blues Beach....

  • Harper
    Harper, Pendleton County, West Virginia
    Harper is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. Harper is located along U.S. Route 220....

  • Ketterman
    Ketterman, West Virginia
    Ketterman is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA....

  • McNeill
    McNeill, West Virginia
    McNeill is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. It lies near the South Branch Potomac River on Trough Road ....

  • Millesons Mill
    Millesons Mill, West Virginia
    Millesons Mill is an unincorporated hamlet in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA. Millesons Mill is located between Springfield and Points on Springfield Pike along the South Branch Potomac River. Milleson Road meets Springfield Pike in Millesons Mill....

  • Moorefield
    Moorefield, West Virginia
    Moorefield is a town in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. Moorefield is the county seat of Hardy County. It was originally chartered in 1777 and named for Conrad Moore, who owned the land upon which the town was laid out...

  • Old Fields
    Old Fields, West Virginia
    Old Fields is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River in northern Hardy County, West Virginia, USA.According to the Geographic Names Information System, Old Fields has also been known throughout its history as Indian Old Field, Indian Old Fields, and Oldfields.-History:The...

  • Pancake
    Pancake, West Virginia
    Pancake is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Pancake is located on Pancake Road , once connecting to South Branch River Road across the South Branch Potomac River. Pancake was once a stop along the South Branch Valley Railroad and is named for the...

  • Petersburg
    Petersburg, West Virginia
    Petersburg is a city in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,423 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Grant County.-History:...

  • Ridgedale
    Ridgedale, Hampshire County, West Virginia
    Ridgedale is an unincorporated area in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located within a horsehoe bend in the South Branch Potomac River between the communities of Blues Beach and Wappocomo. Ridgedale is named for the recently restored 1835 plantation built by George W....

  • Romney
    Romney, West Virginia
    Romney is a city in and the county seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,940 at the 2000 census, while the area covered by the city's ZIP code had a population of 5,873. It is a city with a very historic background dating back to the 18th century...

  • Ruddle
    Ruddle, West Virginia
    Ruddle is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. Ruddle lies along U.S. Highway 220. According to the Geographic Names Information System, Ruddle was originally known by the names of Ruddle Mill and Ruddle's Mill....

  • Sector
    Sector, West Virginia
    Sector is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located along the west bank of the South Branch Potomac River on Fleming-Sector Road across from Glebe....

  • Upper Tract
    Upper Tract, West Virginia
    Upper Tract is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. The community lies along U.S. Highway 220 at the confluence of Reeds Creek and the South Branch Potomac River....

  • Vanderlip
    Vanderlip, West Virginia
    Vanderlip is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Vanderlip is located west of Romney along the Northwestern Turnpike and the South Branch Valley Railroad. At times the community was referred to as West Romney Station, while its post office used the...

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  • Cabins, West Virginia
    Cabins, West Virginia
    Cabins is an unincorporated community on the North Fork South Branch Potomac River in Grant County, West Virginia, USA. Cabins lies within the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area of the Monongahela National Forest....

  • Cherry Grove, West Virginia
    Cherry Grove, West Virginia
    Cherry Grove is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. Cherry Grove lies within the Monongahela National Forest at the confluence of Big Run with the North Fork South Branch Potomac River....

  • Circleville, West Virginia
    Circleville, West Virginia
    Circleville is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. Circleville was named for a Mr. Zirkle who once kept a store here. The old Circleville School is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....

  • Hopeville, West Virginia
    Hopeville, West Virginia
    Hopeville is an unincorporated community on the North Fork South Branch Potomac River in Grant County, West Virginia, USA. Hopeville lies within the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area of the Monongahela National Forest. It formerly had its own school and post office in operation...

  • Macksville, West Virginia
    Macksville, West Virginia
    Macksville is an unincorporated community in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. Macksville is located along U.S. Route 33/West Virginia Route 28 on the North Fork South Branch Potomac River....

  • Riverton, West Virginia
    Riverton, West Virginia
    Riverton is an unincorporated town on the North Fork South Branch Potomac River in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. Riverton lies along U.S. Highway 33/West Virginia Route 28 in the Monongahela National Forest....

  • Seneca Rocks, West Virginia
    Seneca Rocks, West Virginia
    Seneca Rocks is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. The community of Seneca Rocks — formerly known as Mouth of Seneca — lies along West Virginia Route 28/West Virginia Route 55 near the confluence of Seneca Creek and the North Fork South Branch Potomac...


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  • Brake, West Virginia
    Brake, West Virginia
    Brake is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. The community is named for the family of early landowner Johann Jacob Brake who emigrated from southern Germany in the early 18th century. The town once included a sawmill,...

  • Fame, West Virginia
    Fame, West Virginia
    Fame is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA....

  • Fort Seybert, West Virginia
    Fort Seybert, West Virginia
    Fort Seybert is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. This town was named for Captain Jacob Seybert who built an early stockade here. It was captured by Native Americans in 1758, who spared only eleven lives...

  • Milam, West Virginia
    Milam, Hardy County, West Virginia
    Milam is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in southern Hardy County, West Virginia. Milam is located along County Route 7. Originally known as Wine Spring, the community's name was changed to Milam in 1898....

  • Moorefield, West Virginia
    Moorefield, West Virginia
    Moorefield is a town in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. Moorefield is the county seat of Hardy County. It was originally chartered in 1777 and named for Conrad Moore, who owned the land upon which the town was laid out...

  • Oak Flat, West Virginia
    Oak Flat, West Virginia
    Oak Flat is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. Oak Flat lies along U.S. Highway 33....

  • Palo Alto, Virginia
    Palo Alto, Virginia
    Palo Alto is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in Highland County, Virginia, United States....

  • Peru, West Virginia
    Peru, West Virginia
    Peru is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA....

  • Propstburg, West Virginia
    Propstburg, West Virginia
    Propstburg is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA....

  • Sugar Grove, West Virginia
    Sugar Grove, West Virginia
    Sugar Grove is an American government communications site located in Pendleton County, West Virginia operated by the National Security Agency. According to a in the New York Times, the site intercepts all international communications entering the Eastern United States.The site was first developed...

  • Tannery, West Virginia
    Tannery, West Virginia
    Tannery is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. Tannery is located south of Moorefield on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River....


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  • Brake
    Brake, West Virginia
    Brake is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. The community is named for the family of early landowner Johann Jacob Brake who emigrated from southern Germany in the early 18th century. The town once included a sawmill,...

  • Fame
    Fame, West Virginia
    Fame is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA....

  • Fort Seybert
    Fort Seybert, West Virginia
    Fort Seybert is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. This town was named for Captain Jacob Seybert who built an early stockade here. It was captured by Native Americans in 1758, who spared only eleven lives...

  • Milam
    Milam, Hardy County, West Virginia
    Milam is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in southern Hardy County, West Virginia. Milam is located along County Route 7. Originally known as Wine Spring, the community's name was changed to Milam in 1898....

  • Moorefield
    Moorefield, West Virginia
    Moorefield is a town in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. Moorefield is the county seat of Hardy County. It was originally chartered in 1777 and named for Conrad Moore, who owned the land upon which the town was laid out...

  • Oak Flat
    Oak Flat, West Virginia
    Oak Flat is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. Oak Flat lies along U.S. Highway 33....

  • Peru
    Peru, West Virginia
    Peru is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA....

  • Propstburg
    Propstburg, West Virginia
    Propstburg is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA....

  • Sugar Grove
    Sugar Grove, West Virginia
    Sugar Grove is an American government communications site located in Pendleton County, West Virginia operated by the National Security Agency. According to a in the New York Times, the site intercepts all international communications entering the Eastern United States.The site was first developed...

  • Tannery
    Tannery, West Virginia
    Tannery is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. Tannery is located south of Moorefield on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River....

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