Falling Creek UDC Jefferson Davis Highway Marker is a historic stone highway marker located near Richmond, in Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was erected in 1933, and is one of sixteen erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Virginia along the Jefferson Davis Highway between 1927 and 1946. Falling Creek UDC Jefferson Davis Highway Marker is situated 4,000 feet southwest of Polishing Dam.

Spruance Power Plant

Power station

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Spruance Power Plant is a power station, which is situated 3,900 feet north of Polishing Dam.

Bensley Park

Park

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bensley and Warwick.

Bensley

Village

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Bensley is a census-designated place in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States. It is an inner suburb of Richmond. The population was 5,971 at the 2020 census.

Warwick

Hamlet

Warwick was an unincorporated town and port in Chesterfield County, Virginia, located on the navigable portion of the James River about 5 miles south of downtown Richmond, Virginia.

Ampthill

Neighborhood

Ampthill Plantation was located in the Virginia Colony in Chesterfield County on the south bank of the James River about four miles south of the head of navigation at modern-day Richmond, Virginia.

Polishing Dam

Location: Chesterfield, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.4451° or 37° 26′ 42″ north

Longitude

-77.42746° or 77° 25′ 39″ west

Elevation

10 feet (3 metres)

Open location code

8794CHWF+22

OpenStreetMap ID

node 356577028

OpenStreetMap feature

waterway=dam

GeoNames ID

4779692

Wikidata ID

Q48996122

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Polishing Dam” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Polishing Dam”

Localities in the Area

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