"Pocomoke" redirects here. For other uses, see Pocomoke (disambiguation).
River in & Virginia, United States
Pocomoke River
Map of the rivers of the Eastern Shore of Maryland with the Pocomoke and its watershed highlighted.
Location
Country
United States
State
Delaware, Maryland, & Virginia
Region
Delmarva Peninsula
Physical characteristics
Source
Great Cypress Swamp
Mouth
Pocomoke Sound
• elevation
0 ft (0 m)
Length
66 mi (106 km), northeast-to-southwest
Basin features
Tributaries
• left
Dividing Creek, Nassawango Creek, Givens Branch, Aydelotte Branch
• right
Pitts Creek, Pilchard Creek, Mattaponi Creek, Corkers Creek
The Pocomoke River stretches approximately 66 miles (106 km)[1] from southern Delaware through southeastern Maryland in the United States. At its mouth, the river is essentially an arm of Chesapeake Bay, whereas the upper river flows through a series of relatively inaccessible wetlands called the Great Cypress Swamp, largely populated by Loblolly Pine, Red Maple and Bald Cypress. The river is the easternmost river that flows into Chesapeake Bay.
"Pocomoke" locally /ˈpoʊkoʊmoʊk/, though traditionally interpreted as "dark (or black) water" by local residents, is now agreed by scholars of the Algonquian languages to be derived from the words for "broken (or pierced) ground."[2]
^U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 1, 2011
^Nestor, Sandy (2004). Indian Placenames in America. McFarland. p. 80. ISBN 9780786493395. Archived from the original on 21 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
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