Sycamore Island

Sycamore Island is an islet in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Sycamore Island is situated nearby to the neighborhood Estates at Rivers Edge, as well as near Lake Potomac.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pennyfield Lock and Tobytown Park.

Pennyfield Lock

Canal

Photo: Bonnachoven, CC0.

The Pennyfield Lock and lockhouse are part of the 184.5-mile Chesapeake and Ohio Canal that operated in the United States along the Potomac River from the 1830s through 1923.

Tobytown Park

Park

Photo: Lorax, CC BY 4.0.

Tobytown Park is situated 1½ miles northwest of Sycamore Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Travilah and Great Falls.

Travilah is a United States census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is 17.28 square miles located along the north side of the Potomac River, and surrounded by the communities of Potomac, North Potomac, and Darnestown—all census-designated places. Travilah is situated 2 miles north of Sycamore Island.

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.

Sycamore Island

Type: Islet
Categories: forest, locality, and landform
Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.04176° or 39° 2′ 30″ north

Longitude

-77.27334° or 77° 16′ 24″ west

Elevation

161 feet (49 metres)

Open location code

87F42PRG+PM

OpenStreetMap ID

way 137401095

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

4370845

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Highlights include Black Bass Island and Clagett Island.

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