Magothy River
| Magothy River | |
| River | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | Maryland |
| District | Anne Arundel County |
| City | Pasadena, MD, Lake Shore, MD,Cape St. Claire, MD, Gibson Island, MD |
| Source | Woodland Estates Way pond |
| - location | Chartwell, Maryland, United States |
| - elevation | 130 ft (40 m) |
| - coordinates | 39°6′15″N 76°36′13″W / 39.10417°N 76.60361°W |
| Mouth | Chesapeake Bay |
| - elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
| - coordinates | 39°3′22″N 76°26′4″W / 39.05611°N 76.43444°WCoordinates: 39°3′22″N 76°26′4″W / 39.05611°N 76.43444°W |
| Length | 12.1 mi (19 km) |
| Basin | 44 sq mi (114 km2) |
The Magothy River runs 12.1 miles (19.5 km) through Anne Arundel County in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is located south of the Patapsco River and north of the Severn River. There are two public park paddling access points, Beachwood Park on the north shore a half mile east of the Magothy Bridge Road bridge, and Spriggs Farm Park off Bayberry Drive, on the south shore two miles west of the Magothy's mouth. Both are Anne Arundel County parks.
The Magothy's tidal estuary portion extends for eight miles from its mouth at the Chesapeake Bay south of Gibson Island. The tidal Magothy reaches a maximum width of 2.5 miles including Sillery Bay and Tar Cove (formerly Tar Coal Cove) adjoining Gibson Island on the west. The source of its four-mile non-tidal portion is a small pond on Woodland Estates Way in Chartwell, just west of Elvaton Park, four miles north of Millersville. It is well known among recreational boaters for the popular anchorage north of Dobbins Island. Its navigable tidal portion is crossed by one bridge, located on Magothy Bridge Road in Pasadena. Its upper, nontidal portion is dammed at MD 648 (Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard) to form Lake Waterford at the site of an old mill dam. Some of the creeks on its south shore drain highly developed portions of Severna Park and Arnold, especially North Cypress Creek which drains much of the Park Plaza and Giant shopping centers along Ritchie Highway north of McKinsey Road.
The Baltimore Light Station is located in the Chesapeake two miles east of the mouth of the river.
Over six miles of Chesapeake shoreline from Sandy Point to the non-Magothy east side of Gibson Island, including the Little Magothy River, all well beyond the official and actual mouth of the Magothy (325 meters south of the southern tip of Gibson Island), are not in the Magothy watershed but are often included in county and state government studies of the watershed. These studies outline a watershed area (including the water surface) of 44 square miles (110 km2), or 35 square miles (91 km2) of land, with a total watershed area is 20% water.
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