Minnehaha Branch

Minnehaha Branch is a stream in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Minnehaha Branch is situated nearby to the village Glen Echo, as well as near the neighborhood Fairway Hills.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lock 7 and Clara Barton National Historic Site.

Lock 7

River

Photo: Bonnachoven, CC0.

Lock 7 is a river.

Clara Barton National Historic Site

Geographical marker

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

The Clara Barton National Historic Site, which includes the Clara Barton House, was established in 1974 to interpret the life of Clara Barton, an American pioneer teacher, nurse, and humanitarian who was the founder of the American Red Cross.

Central Intelligence Agency

Military installation

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glen Echo and Cabin John.

Glen Echo

Village

Photo: Ben Walther, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Glen Echo is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, that was chartered in 1904. The population was 279 at the 2020 census.

Cabin John

Village

Photo: Fuzheado, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cabin John is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 2,459. Overlooking the Potomac River, it is a suburb of Washington, D.C.…

Langley

Suburb

Photo: Patrickneil, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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 southwest of Minnehaha Branch.

Minnehaha Branch

Type: Stream
Category: body of water
Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.96567° or 38° 57′ 56″ north

Longitude

-77.14053° or 77° 8′ 26″ west

Elevation

49 feet (15 metres)

Open location code

87C4XV85+7Q

GeoNames ID

4362595

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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Fairway Hills and Tulip Hill.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Chatauqua Island and Lock 7.

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