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Washington, D.C. is situated in a topographic bowl. The bottom of the bowl, where the White House and United States Capitol are located, is in the floodplain of the junction of the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers. Extending out from the floodplain is a series of rising river terraces.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with Maryland to its north and east. It was named after George Washington, the first president of the United ...
The Potomac River in Washington, D.C., with Arlington Memorial Bridge in the foreground and Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia in the background. The Potomac River runs 405 mi (652 km) from Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park in West Virginia on the Allegheny Plateau to Point Lookout, Maryland, and drains 14,679 sq mi (38,020 km 2). The ...
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 ...
All rivers and streams in Washington, D.C. should be included in this category. This includes all the rivers and streams that can also be found in the subcategories. The main article for this category is List of rivers of Washington, D.C. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rivers of Washington, D.C.
[clarification needed] Originally, the District of Columbia was a near-perfect square but contained more than one settlement; the Capitol was to be the center of the City of Washington. Thus, the Capitol was never located at the geographic center of the whole territory, which was eventually north of the Potomac River, consolidated into one city.
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The catalyst in Washington was the rumored arrest of a black man for rape; in four days of mob violence, whites randomly beat black people on the street and pulled others off streetcars for attacks. When police refused to intervene, the black population fought back.