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Claud E. Kitchens Outdoor School at Fairview, formerly known as Fairview Outdoor School and Fairview Outdoor Education Center, is a public school located between Clear Spring and Hancock in western Washington County, Maryland, United States. The school was built in 1979 and serves students in the Washington County Public Schools system as a facility to promote environmental awareness. The school was renamed as of 9 December 2008 to honor the late former Washington County Public Schools superintendent Claud E. Kitchens, who oversaw the construction of the facility.

Clear Spring is a town in Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population was 358 at the 2010 census.

Indian Springs is an unincorporated community in western Washington County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 64 as of the 2010 census.

Big Spring is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 84 as of the 2010 census. Maryland Route 56 passes through the community.

Huyett (also known as Huyetts Crossroads) is an unincorporated community not considered as a census-designated place (CDP) in western Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is located north of Williamsport and south of Cearfoss on Maryland Route 63 and on U.S. Route 40, west of Hagerstown and east of Clear Spring. Huyett is officially included in the Hagerstown Metropolitan Area (Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area). Many trucking firms and transportation related businesses of the Hagerstown area are located in Huyett. The community benefits from easy access to both Interstate 70 via exit 24 (MD 63) and Interstate 81 via exit 6B (US 40).

Four Locks is a former small community which is now part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. It was once a thriving community of homes and businesses in Washington County, Maryland that supported the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from the mid-19th century, until its closure in the 1920s. In its heyday, the small community consisted of two stores, two warehouses, a dry dock for boat repair, a school, and post office, plus about a dozen houses.

Stafford Hall is an early 19th-century Federal-style mansion near Clear Spring in Washington County, Maryland, United States. Stafford Hall was the residence of John Thomson Mason, Jr. (May 9, 1815 – March 28, 1873), a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, representing the sixth district from 1841 to 1843.

Montpelier is a late 18th-century Federal-style mansion in Clear Spring in Washington County, Maryland, United States. Montpelier was the residence of John Thomson Mason (15 March 1765–10 December 1824), a prominent American jurist and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806. Montpelier is located at 13448 Broadfording Road in Clear Spring.

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. 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. 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.

Fort Frederick State Park is a public recreation and historic preservation area on the Potomac River surrounding the restored Fort Frederick, a fortification active in the French and Indian War (1754–1763) and the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The state park lies south of the town of Big Pool, Maryland. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal runs through the park grounds. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1973.

Ernstville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 56 as of the 2010 census.

Back Creek is a 59.5-mile-long (95.8 km) tributary of the Potomac River that flows north from Frederick County, Virginia, to Berkeley County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Back Creek originates along Frederick County's border with Hampshire County, West Virginia, at Farmer's Gap in the Great North Mountain. Its name reflects its location to the west of North Mountain. The perspective of colonists from the east in the 18th century led them to call it "Back Creek", because it lay to the back of North Mountain.