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the district’s historical streams

Streams, rivers, waterbodies, and marshes of Washington, DC as they appeared on nine maps made between 1793 and 1917 — most of them long since buried, filled, or piped underground.

data & sources

Data by David Ramos (Imaginary Terrain) with Straughan Environmental, produced for the DC Department of Energy & Environment. Please cite David Ramos when using this data.

  • StoryMap: DC Historical Streams
  • Original ArcGIS web map
  • USGS Circular 752 (Williams, 1977)
  • Boschke 1861 map scan (Library of Congress)
  • DC Well Permits (DOEE, Open Data DC)
  • 20 ft Contours (Open Data DC, 2008 lidar)

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