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{{Short description|Escarpment in the Eastern United States}}

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| formed_by = [[New Jersey]], [[Virginia]], the [[Carolinas]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Alabama]], U.S.<ref name=USGS>{{Cite web|title=The Fall Line |url=http://tapestry.usgs.gov/features/14fallline.html |work=A Tapestry of Time and Terrain: The Union of Two Maps - Geology and Topography |publisher=USGS.gov |access-date=2010-08-12 |url-status=dead }}{{dead link|date=August 2025}}</ref><ref name="georgia">{{Cite web|title=Georgia Geology |url=http://www.gly.uga.edu/default.php?PK=0&iPage=5#FallLine |access-date=2010-08-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100904194712/http://www.gly.uga.edu/default.php?PK=0&iPage=5 |archive-date=4 September 2010 <!--DASHBot--> |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=freitag/>

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* [[Havre de Grace, Maryland]], on the [[Susquehanna River]]/head of [[Chesapeake Bay]].

* [[Baltimore|Baltimore, Maryland]], on [[Herring Run]], [[Jones Falls]], and [[Gwynns Falls]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.mgs.md.gov/geology/ |title= Maryland Geology |publisher= Maryland Geological Society |access-date= 25 January 2017}}</ref>

* [[Elkridge, Maryland]], on the [[Patapsco River]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}}

* [[Laurel, Maryland]], on the [[Patuxent River]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}

* [[Washington, D.C.]], on the [[Potomac River]].<ref name=deane>{{cite book |last= Deane |first= Winegar |title= Highroad Guide to Chesapeake Bay |year= 2002 |publisher= John F. Blair |isbn= 978-0-89587-279-1 |page= 5 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=bMejFkODGIcC&pg=PA5 |access-date= 17 November 2010}}</ref>

* [[Occoquan, Virginia]], on the [[Occoquan River]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}

* [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]] on the [[Rappahannock River]].<ref name=deane/>

* [[Hanover, Virginia]], on the [[North Anna River]]{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}}

* [[Richmond, Virginia]], on the [[James River]].<ref name=roberts>{{cite book |last= Roberts |first= David C. |author2=W. Grant Hodsdon |editor= Roger Tory Peterson |title= A Field Guide to Geology: Eastern North America |year= 2001 |publisher= Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn= 978-0-618-16438-7 |page= 242 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=zNJO2VBVRPIC&pg=PA242 |access-date= 17 November 2010}}</ref>

* [[PetersburgGoldsboro, VirginiaNorth Carolina]] and [[Smithfield, North Carolina]], on the [[AppomattoxNeuse River]].<ref name=vaplacesncpedia>{{cite web |url= http://www.virginiaplacesncpedia.org/regions/fallshape.htmlfall-line |title= Geology of the Fall Line |publisher= Virginia PlacesNCpedia |access-date= 25 January 2017}}</ref>

* [[Weldon, North Carolina]], and [[Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina]], on the [[Roanoke River]].<ref name=ncpedia>{{cite web |url= http://www.ncpedia.org/fall-line |title= Fall Line |publisher= NCpedia |access-date= 25 January 2017}}</ref>

* [[Tarboro, North Carolina]] and [[Rocky Mount, North Carolina]], on the [[Tar River]].<ref name=ncpedia/>

* [[Goldsboro, North Carolina]] and [[Smithfield, North Carolina]], on the [[Neuse River]].<ref name=ncpedia/>

* [[Fayetteville, North Carolina]], on the [[Cape Fear River]].{{citation needed|date=August 2025}}

* [[Cheraw, South Carolina]], on the [[Pee Dee River]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}

* [[Camden, South Carolina]], on the [[Wateree River]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}

* [[Columbia, South Carolina]], on the [[Congaree River]].<ref name=georgia/><ref name=roberts/>

* [[Augusta, Georgia]], on the [[Savannah River]].<ref name=georgia/>

* [[Milledgeville, Georgia]], on the [[Oconee River]].<ref name=georgia/>

* [[Macon, Georgia]], on the [[Ocmulgee River]].<ref name=georgia/>

* [[Columbus, Georgia]], on the [[Chattahoochee River]].<ref name=georgia/>

* [[Tallassee, Alabama]], on the [[Tallapoosa River]].

* [[Wetumpka, Alabama]], on the [[Coosa River]].

* [[Centreville, Alabama]], on the [[Cahaba River]].

* [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama]], on the [[Black Warrior River]].<ref name=georgia/>