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.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda and Lock 6.
Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda
Government office
Central Intelligence Agency
Military installation
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
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
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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Latitude
38.9491° or 38° 56′ 57″ north
Longitude
-77.12822° or 77° 7′ 42″ west
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
Open location code
87C4WVXC+JP
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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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