Potomac Yard
Potomac Yard is a neighborhood in Northern Virginia that straddles southeastern Arlington County and northeastern Alexandria, Virginia, located principally in the area between U.S. Route 1 and the Washington Metro Blue Line /Yellow Line tracks, or the George Washington Memorial Parkway, depending on the definition used.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Potomac Yard station and The Birchmere.
Potomac Yard station
Metro station
Photo: Mint0ri, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Potomac Yard station is a Washington Metro station in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. It is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, serving both the Blue and Yellow Lines, and opened on May 19, 2023.
The Birchmere
Theater building
Photo: Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Birchmere is a concert hall in Alexandria, Virginia, that features rock, blues, bluegrass, country, folk, jazz, ethnic, and comedic performers. Its main room seats 500 and provides dinner service, making for an intimate space, with tables only a few feet away from the stage.
Grace Episcopal Church
Church
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grace Episcopal Church is an Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia, in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. Grace Episcopal Church is a center for worship and fellowship, a school for discipleship and stewardship and a community for healing and outreach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosemont Historic District and Crystal City.
Rosemont Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Rosemont Historic District is a historic district in Alexandria, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Crystal City
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crystal City is the secondary "downtown" area of Arlington, Virginia, after the Rosslyn–Ballston Corridor. This article also includes the nearby neighborhoods of Pentagon City, Arlington Ridge, and Aurora Highlands.
Parkfairfax
Neighborhood
Parkfairfax is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia, located in the northwestern part of the city near the boundary with Arlington County. Nearby thoroughfares are Interstate 395, State Route 402, and West Glebe Road. Parkfairfax is situated 1½ miles west of Potomac Yard.
Potomac Yard
- Type: Suburb
- Description: former rail yard in the U.S. state of Virginia
- Categories: rail yard and locality
- Location: Alexandria, Northern Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.83203° or 38° 49′ 55″ northLongitude
-77.04935° or 77° 2′ 58″ westOpen location code
87C4RXJ2+R7OpenStreetMap ID
node 8919665759OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q7235093
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Potomac Yard” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “波多馬克雅德”
- Chinese: “波多马克调车场”
- Japanese: “ポトマックヤード”
- Japanese: “ポトマック操車場”
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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 “Potomac Yard”. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.