Little Falls Dam
Little Falls Dam, also known as Brookmont Dam, is a low dam on the Potomac River, built in 1959 to divert water for the water supply system of Washington, D.C., just below Mather Gorge, about 2 miles above Chain Bridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda and Lock 6.
Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda
Government office
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The Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda is a campus in Brookmont, Maryland containing offices for several agencies of the United States Intelligence Community. Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda is situated 1,700 feet east of Little Falls Dam.
Central Intelligence Agency
Military installation
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The George Bush Center for Intelligence is the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, located in the unincorporated community of Langley in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, near Washington, D.C. The headquarters is a conglomeration of the Original Headquarters Building and the New Headquarters Building and sits on a total of 258 acres of land. Central Intelligence Agency is situated 1 mile west of Little Falls Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brookmont and Glen Echo.
Brookmont
Village
Brookmont is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 3,751.
Glen Echo
Village
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Glen Echo is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, that was chartered in 1904. The population was 279 at the 2020 census. Glen Echo is situated 1½ miles northwest of Little Falls Dam.
Langley
Suburb
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Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The name "Langley" often occurs as a metonym for the Central Intelligence Agency, whose headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence, is in Langley. Langley is situated 1½ miles west of Little Falls Dam.
Little Falls Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States of America
- Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Italian—“Little Falls Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Little Falls Dam”
- Italian: “diga di Little Falls”
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