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DC Genealogical Database; National Capital Planning Commission; D.C. Guide; Washington DC, street by street (historic and modern photographs) Street map of Ward 4. Office of Councilmember Muriel Bowser.
English: Based upon the US counties map but cut down to show only the Washington, DC metropolitan area and then clipped to a rectangular region Source File:Usa_counties_large.svg
The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States.
[6] [7] The heights of buildings listed here may therefore exceed the general height limit as measured for the purpose of the city's zoning laws. In modern times, the skyline remains low and sprawling, keeping with Thomas Jefferson's wishes to make Washington an "American Paris" with "low and convenient" buildings on "light and airy" streets. [5]
An enlargeable map of the United States District of Columbia. Names Common name: Washington, D.C. ... Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: DC; ISO 3166-2 code ...
Map of Washington, D.C., with Hawthorne highlighted in red Near the intersection of 32nd St. and Chestnut St. NW, in Hawthorne, in July 2021.. Hawthorne is a neighborhood of 308 single family homes in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. [1] According to neighborhood lore, the subdivision was named for the hawthorn trees once abundant in the area. [1]
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Facsimile of manuscript of Peter Charles L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the federal capital city (United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1887). [2] L'Enfant's plan for Washington, D.C., as revised by Andrew Ellicott in 1792 Thackara & Vallance's 1792 print of Ellicott's "Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia", showing street names, lot numbers, depths of the Potoma River and ...