Massachusetts
Middlesex
City of Somerville

Amelia Earhart Dam

The Amelia Earhart Dam is an earth-fill dam spanning the near its mouth between and . It was built in 1966 to regulate tidal effects and the incursion of salt water in the upstream river basin.
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  • 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.

Railway station
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is a rapid transit station in . 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. is situated 1,300 feet southwest of Amelia Earhart Dam.

Shopping center
Assembly Square is a neighborhood in , , United States. It is located along the west bank of the , bordered by and Massachusetts Route 28 to the north and the neighborhood of to the south. is situated 2,100 feet west of Amelia Earhart Dam.

Metro station
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is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Orange Line rapid transit station in , near the border of . 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.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of the city of , . The area is roughly wedge-shaped, about 50 acres in size, and is bounded by the to the north, McGrath Highway to the east, and is largely separated from the rest of Somerville by Interstate 93 to the southwest.

Neighborhood
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The is a historic district consisting of the even-numbered houses at 8–24 Mount Vernon Street in .

Locality
is a traffic circle located at the north end of the neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is named after James Sullivan, an early 19th-century Governor of Massachusetts.

Amelia Earhart Dam

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
United States Geological Survey
Open location code
87JC9WWF+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12067114590
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­monitoring_station
Geo­Names ID
4928966
Wiki­data ID
Q18148286
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Amelia Earhart Dam”. Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.