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Rivers Of Washington, D.C.
List of rivers and creeks of Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia), sorted alphabetically. * Anacostia River * Barnaby Run * Bennings Branch (historical) * Bingham Run * Broad Branch * Davis Branch (historical) * Deep Branch (historical) * Duck Creek (historical) * Dumbarton Oaks * Fenwick Branch * Fletchers Run * Fort Chaplin Tributary * Fort Dupont Tributary * Fort Stanton Tributary * Foundry Branch * Gallatin Run * Gillam Branch (historical) * Hickey Run * James Creek (historical) * Klingle Run * Lost Stream * Lower Beaverdam Creek * Luzon Branch * Maddox Branch * Melvin Hazen Valley Branch * Milkhouse Run * Nash Run * Normanstone Creek * Oxon Creek * Oxon Run * Pinehurst Branch * Piney Branch * Piney Run * Pope Branch * Portal Branch * Potomac River * Reedy Branch (historical) * Rock Creek * Soapstone Branch * Stickfoot Branch * Texas Avenue Tributary * Tiber Creek (Goose Creek) * Watts Branch * Winkle Doodle Run See also * Boundary Channel *Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River
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Foundry Branch
Foundry Branch is a tributary stream of the Potomac River in Washington, DC. The historic headwaters of the stream originate in the Tenleytown area in Northwest Washington, however at present the section of the stream north of Massachusetts Avenue is hydrologically separated from the lower section and runs through a large stormwater pipe under the daylighted portion. The daylight portion of the stream can be seen south of Massachusetts Avenue, in Glover-Archbold Park, and the stream continues to the Potomac, which drains to the Chesapeake Bay. The stream was named for the Columbia Foundry, established in Georgetown by Henry Foxall in 1799, along the banks of the stream which had previously been known as Deep or Mill Creek. See also *List of District of Columbia rivers References * United States Geological Survey. Reston, VA"Foundry Branch."''Geographic Names Information System The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative informa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nash Run
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Melvin Hazen Valley Branch
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Maddox Branch
Maddox Branch is a tributary stream of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., USA. The historic headwaters of the stream originate in the Tenleytown area in Northwest Washington. The stream flows from the campus of American University south about 1 mile (1.6 km) through Battery Kemble Park, under the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to the Potomac. See also *List of District of Columbia rivers List of rivers and creeks of Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia), sorted alphabetically. * Anacostia River * Barnaby Run * Bennings Branch (historical) * Bingham Run * Broad Branch * Davis Branch (historical) * Deep Branch (historical) ... References Tributaries of the Potomac River Rivers of Washington, D.C. {{WashingtonDC-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luzon Branch
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Lower Beaverdam Creek
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Lost Stream
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James Creek
James Creek was a tributary of the Anacostia River in the southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., once known as St. James' Creek and perhaps named after local landowner James Greenleaf. It arose from several springs just south of Capitol Hill. Its course ran through land owned by James Greenleaf, roughly parallel to the route of present-day Delaware Avenue, SW, emptying into a cove along the Anacostia River at present-day 1st Street SW, between Greenleaf Point to the west and Buzzard Point to the east. South of I Street SW, it flowed through an area of tidal marshes. By 1815, its upstream reach was subsumed into the Washington City Canal, together with the main stem of Tiber Creek. From 1866 to 1876, its tidal lower reach was converted into the James Creek Canal, which was buried in 1916–1917. Two present-day sites are named after the creek: James Creek, a District of Columbia Housing Authority The District of Columbia Housing Authority is an independent government ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
