North Branch Patapsco River

North Branch Patapsco River is an oxbow lake in Baltimore County, Central Maryland, Maryland. North Branch Patapsco River is situated nearby to the village Marriottsville, as well as near the hamlet Prospect Hills.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Woodstock College and Granite Historic District.

Woodstock College

School building

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Woodstock College was a seminary that existed from 1869 to 1974. It was the oldest Jesuit seminary in the United States. The school was located in Woodstock, Maryland, west of Baltimore, from its establishment until 1969, when it moved to New York City, where it operated in cooperation with the Union Theological Seminary and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Granite Historic District

Memorial

Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Granite Historic District is a national historic district in Granite, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It comprises the focus of a rural quarrying community located in the Patapsco Valley of western Baltimore County, Maryland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marriottsville and Woodstock.

Marriottsville

Village

Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.

Marriottsville is an unincorporated community in Howard, Carroll and Baltimore counties, Maryland, United States. Marriottsville is located along Marriottsville Road near the Carroll County line, 10.3 miles north-northwest of Columbia.

Woodstock

Hamlet

Woodstock is an unincorporated community which is a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The original village of Woodstock is located in Howard County, and also includes portions of Baltimore County and Carroll County.

Granite

Village

Photo: Bohemian Baltimore, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Granite is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. Originally known as Waltersville, it was renamed Granite in recognition of its principal product.

North Branch Patapsco River

Type: Oxbow lake (intermittent)
Category: body of water
Location: Baltimore County, Central Maryland, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.35139° or 39° 21′ 5″ north

Longitude

-76.88013° or 76° 52′ 49″ west

Elevation

249 feet (76 metres)

Open location code

87F59429+HW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 664914962

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=oxbow

OpenStreetMap attribute

intermittent=yes

GeoNames ID

4363858

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