Potowomut River
{{Short description|River in Rhode Island, United States}}
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The Potowomut River ({{Respell|pot|uh|WAHM|ut}}{{Cite web |last=Farzan |first=Antonia Noori |author-link=Antonia Noori Farzan |title=Rhode Island pronunciation guide: 35 names that visitors and even some locals get wrong |url=https://www.providencejournal.com/story/lifestyle/2024/07/02/how-do-you-pronounce-quonochontaug-heres-how-to-say-ris-trickiest-names-sachuest-pawtucket-pascoag/73789429007/ |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=The Providence Journal |language=en-US}}) is a tidal extension of the Hunt River in the U.S. state of Rhode Island.{{GNIS|1218361}} It runs approximately {{convert|2.5|mi}}.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map], accessed April 1, 2011
Course
The river begins in name just south of Old Forge Road in Warwick where the river becomes the southern boundary of Potowomut Neck, an exclave of Warwick. It flows roughly northeast between Warwick and North Kingstown until its mouth at Narragansett Bay.
Crossings
Old Forge Road in Warwick is the only crossing over the Potowomut River.
Tributaries
The Potowomut River has no named or unnamed tributaries.
See also
References
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Category:Rivers of Kent County, Rhode Island
Category:East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Category:Warwick, Rhode Island
Category:Rivers of Rhode Island
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