Big Pool, Maryland

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| official_name = Big Pool, Maryland

| settlement_type = census-designated place

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| image_skyline = Big Pool on 14 mile Level looking from towpath.jpg

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| image_caption = Big Pool, the body of water formed when the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was made, which gave the name to the area

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| subdivision_name = United States

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| subdivision_name1 = Maryland

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Washington

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| area_footnotes = {{cite web|title=2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_24.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=April 26, 2022}}

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| area_total_km2 = 0.28

| area_land_km2 = 0.28

| area_water_km2 = 0.00

| area_total_sq_mi = 0.11

| area_land_sq_mi = 0.11

| area_water_sq_mi = 0.00

| population_as_of = 2020

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| population_total = 78

| population_density_km2 = 279.51

| population_density_sq_mi = 722.22

| timezone = Eastern (EST)

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| timezone_DST = EDT

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| elevation_ft = 443

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| area_codes = 301, 240

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|blank_info = 24-07375

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| blank1_info = 2583583{{GNIS|2583583}}

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Big Pool is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in western Washington County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 82 as of the 2010 census.{{cite web|title=2010 Census Gazetteer Files - Places: Maryland|url=http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2010_place_list_24.txt|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|accessdate=February 11, 2017}} It is between Clear Spring, Maryland and Hancock, Maryland along Interstate 70 and is officially a part of the Hagerstown Metropolitan Area.

To the south of Big Pool lies Fort Frederick State Park, a restored fort used during the French and Indian War. Also nearby is the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, which lies near Ft. Frederick alongside the Potomac River.

Image:Fort Frederick, Hagerstown vicinity (Washington County, Maryland).jpg is located just south of Big Pool.]]

Big Pool is also the name of a large body of water which is part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. This pool occurs roughly at the 113 mile mark, and it is on what the canallers called the 14 mile level.

{{US Census population

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|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}

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