Six Locks

Six Locks is an area in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Six Locks is situated nearby to the locality Great Falls, as well as near the neighborhood Fawsett Farms.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park and Great Falls.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park

Photo: Zellfaze, CC0.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the District of Columbia, West Virginia and Maryland. It lies in the Potomac River Valley between Washington, D.C. and Cumberland.

Great Falls

Waterfall

Photo: MamaGeek, CC BY 3.0.

Great Falls is a series of rapids and waterfalls on the Potomac River in the state of Maryland 14 miles upstream from Washington, D.C. As the border between the states of Maryland and Virginia generally follows the low-water line on the Virginia side, the…

Lock 19

Canal

Photo: Bonnachoven, CC0.

Lock 19 is a canal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Great Falls and Potomac.

Great Falls

Photo: Rob Shenk, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Great Falls in Virginia, within the United States of America. It's a suburb outside the DC beltway. Nearly all the businesses are found at either end of Walker Road.

Potomac

Photo: Russ, CC BY 2.0.

Potomac is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 47,018.

Carderock

Locality

Carderock is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, along the Potomac River. It is located in the southern part of the Potomac census-designated place and western part of the Bethesda postal area. Carderock is situated 3 miles southeast of Six Locks.

Six Locks

Type: Area
Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.99455° or 38° 59′ 40″ north

Longitude

-77.24554° or 77° 14′ 44″ west

Elevation

190 feet (58 metres)

Open location code

87C4XQV3+RQ

GeoNames ID

4369649

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Satellite Map

Discover Six Locks from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Great Falls and Fawsett Farms.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Rocky Islands and Lock 17.

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