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.Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Monitoring station
- Description: dam in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Also known as: “MYSTIC R DS OF AMELIA EARHART DAM, SOMMERVILLE, MA” and “Mystic River downstream of Amelia Earhart Dam”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Assembly station and Assembly Square Marketplace.
Assembly station
Metro station
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 800 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 2,000 feet west of Amelia Earhart Dam.
Alford Street Bridge
Bridge
Photo: 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0.
Alford Street Bridge is situated 2,300 feet southeast of Amelia Earhart Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ten Hills and Mount Vernon Street Historic District.
Ten Hills
Neighborhood
Photo: Theodric, Public domain.
Ten Hills is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of the city of Somerville, Massachusetts. The area is roughly wedge-shaped, about 50 acres in size, and is bounded by the Mystic River to the north, McGrath Highway to the east, and is largely separated from the rest of Somerville by Interstate 93 to the southwest.
Mount Vernon Street Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
42.39431° or 42° 23′ 40″ northLongitude
-71.07557° or 71° 4′ 32″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Operator
United States Geological SurveyOpen location code
87JC9WVF+PQOpenStreetMap ID
node 13433742067OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=monitoring_stationGeoNames ID
4928966Wikidata ID
Q18148286
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Satellite Map
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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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