Thoms Cove | |
Location: | Hawkins Point, Baltimore |
Coords: | 39.212°N -76.547°W |
Rivers: | Patapsco River |
Width: | 3000feet |
Depth: | 80feet |
Pushpin Map: | Maryland |
Shore: | 6000feet |
Salinity: | Brackish |
Frozen: | Seasonal |
Islands: | 0 |
Cities: | Baltimore |
Thoms Cove,[1] the nickname for Thomas Cove, is a natural cove approximately 1500feet in diameter in Hawkins Point, Baltimore on the northeastern end of the peninsula with the tidal Patapsco River to the northeast, Curtis Bay to the northwest, Hawkins Point[2] [3] to the west and I-695 to the south.
Thoms Cove is bordered by Eastalco Aluminum Company's loading and storage facility[4] and a Superfund landfill.[2] It is in the USGS quadrangle "Curtis Bay" and a Maryland grid coordinate of500800N and 928000E[1] and is largely administered by the Maryland Port Administration.