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name = Washington, D.C. Name used in the default map caption; image = Location map Washington DC Cleveland Park to Southwest Waterfront.png The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 38.9375 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 38.8591 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -77.0886
Map showing the location of Washington, D.C. in relation to its bordering states of Maryland and Virginia Washington, D.C. is located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States at 38°53′42″N 77°02′11″W / 38.89500°N 77.03639°W / 38.89500; -77.03639 , the coordinates of the Zero Milestone , on The Ellipse
Washington, D.C., is administratively divided into four geographical quadrants of unequal size, each delineated by their ordinal directions from the medallion located in the Crypt under the Rotunda of the Capitol. Street and number addressing, centered on the Capitol, radiates out into each of the quadrants, producing a number of intersections ...
When originally designated in 1926, US 1 entered Washington DC on Bladensburg Road. The old route then continued on Maryland Avenue and turned south on 1st Street, where it then turns left into the U.S. Capitol grounds. US 1 went around the Capitol, making its way to Pennsylvania Avenue. The route continues on Pennsylvania Avenue to 14th Street ...
The building was designed by architects and engineers in the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon, and built from 1928 to 1936. [2] The cornerstone was laid in 1929 by Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon. [3]
Location mi [1] km Destinations Notes; Potomac River: 0.0: 0.0: US 50 west (Arlington Boulevard) Continuation into Virginia: 0.2: 0.32: George Washington Parkway north: Westbound exit only: I-66 west (Theodore Roosevelt Bridge west) Western end of I-66 concurrency; westbound exit and eastbound entrance: 0.2– 0.5: 0.32– 0.80: Eastern end of ...
Facsimile of manuscript of Peter Charles L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the federal capital city (United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1887). [2] L'Enfant's plan for Washington, D.C., as revised by Andrew Ellicott in 1792 Thackara & Vallance's 1792 print of Ellicott's "Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia", showing street names, lot numbers, depths of the Potoma River and ...
Map of the boundary stones. The District of Columbia (initially, the Territory of Columbia) was originally specified to be a square 100 square miles (260 km 2) in area, with the axes between the corners of the square running north-south and east-west, The square had its southern corner at the southern tip of Jones Point in Alexandria, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac River and ...