Rock Creek

Rock Creek is a bay in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Rock Creek is situated nearby to the hamlet Fairview, as well as near the neighborhood Surfside.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Smallwood Park and Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station.

Fort Smallwood Park

Park

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Fort Smallwood Park is a county park in northeastern Anne Arundel County, near Riviera Beach and Pasadena, Maryland, United States. It is located on the outer Patapsco River as it meets the Chesapeake Bay, on a peninsula known as Rock Point.

Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station

Power station

Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station is an electric generating station located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, just east of Glen Burnie, and is operated by the Raven Power Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Talen Energy. Herbert A. Wagner Generating Station is situated 2½ miles northwest of Rock Creek.

Northeast High School is a public high school in unincorporated northeastern Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The school opened in 1964 and serves as one of two high schools for the town of Pasadena, which is fifteen miles south of Baltimore. Northeast High School is situated 2 miles southwest of Rock Creek.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fairview and Riviera Beach.

Fairview

Hamlet

Fairview is an unincorporated community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.

Riviera Beach

Town

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Riviera Beach is a census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The population was 12,677 at the 2010 U.S. census.

Orchard Beach

Hamlet

Orchard Beach is an unincorporated community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The community lies outside the Baltimore Beltway, approximately four miles from its nearest interchange. Orchard Beach is situated 1½ miles northwest of Rock Creek.

Rock Creek

Type: Bay
Category: body of water
Location: Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.1565° or 39° 9′ 23″ north

Longitude

-76.50024° or 76° 30′ 1″ west

Open location code

87F55F4X+HW

GeoNames ID

4367053

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