Amelia Earhart Dam
The Amelia Earhart Dam is an earth-fill dam spanning the Mystic River near its mouth between Somerville and Everett, Massachusetts. It was built in 1966 to regulate tidal effects and the incursion of salt water in the upstream river basin.- Type: Monitoring station
- Description: dam in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Also known as: “MYSTIC R AT AMELIA EARHART DAM NR SOMERVILLE, MA” and “Mystic River at Amelia Earhart Dam”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Assembly station and Assembly Square Marketplace.
Assembly station
Metro station
Assembly station is a rapid transit station in Somerville, Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA's Orange Line. It is an infill station, located on a section of the Orange Line that has been active since 1975. Assembly station is situated 1,300 feet southwest of Amelia Earhart Dam.
Assembly Square Marketplace
Shopping center
Assembly Square is a neighborhood in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. It is located along the west bank of the Mystic River, bordered by Ten Hills and Massachusetts Route 28 to the north and the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston to the south. Assembly Square Marketplace is situated 2,100 feet west of Amelia Earhart Dam.
Wellington station
Metro station
Wellington station is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Orange Line rapid transit station in Medford, Massachusetts, near the border of Everett. Wellington station is situated 2,300 feet north of Amelia Earhart Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ten Hills and Mount Vernon Street Historic District.
Ten Hills
Neighborhood
Mount Vernon Street Historic District
Neighborhood
The Mount Vernon Street Historic District is a historic district consisting of the even-numbered houses at 8–24 Mount Vernon Street in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Sullivan Square
Locality
Sullivan Square is a traffic circle located at the north end of the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is named after James Sullivan, an early 19th-century Governor of Massachusetts.
Amelia Earhart Dam
- Category: dam
- Location: City of Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.39565° or 42° 23′ 44″ north
Longitude
-71.07505° or 71° 4′ 30″ west
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
Inception
December 4th, 2007
Operator
Open location code
87JC9WWF+7X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=monitoring_station
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Italian—“Amelia Earhart Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Amelia Earhart Dam”
- Chinese: “阿米莉亚·埃哈特水坝”
- Chinese: “阿米莉亞·埃哈特水壩”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد اميليا ايرهارت”
- Italian: “diga di Amelia Earhart”
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