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Wisconsin Avenue

Index Wisconsin Avenue

Wisconsin Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., and its Maryland suburbs. [1]

67 relations: Address (geography), Battle of Fort Stevens, Battle of Monocacy, Bethesda station, Bethesda, Maryland, Cartesian coordinate system, Cathedral Heights, Clarksburg, Maryland, Cleveland Park, County seat, DC Circulator, Frederick County, Maryland, Frederick, Maryland, Friendship Heights, Friendship Heights station, Gaithersburg station, Gaithersburg, Maryland, Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown street renaming, Germantown, Maryland, Glover Park, Grosvenor–Strathmore station, History of Washington, D.C., Interstate 270 (Maryland), Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway), Interstate 70, Jubal Early, K Street (Washington, D.C.), Limited-stop, List of Metrobus routes (Washington, D.C.), M Street (Washington, D.C.), MARC Train, Maryland, Maryland Route 355, Medical Center station (Washington Metro), Montgomery County, Maryland, National Highway System (United States), National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Health campus, North Bethesda, Maryland, Northwest, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania Avenue Line (Washington, D.C.), Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Potomac River, Red Line (Washington Metro), Ride On (bus), Rockville station, Rockville, Maryland, Shady Grove station, Street or road name, ..., Strip mall, Tenleytown, Tenleytown–AU station, Traffic congestion, Twinbrook station, U.S. Route 15, U.S. Route 240, U.S. Route 29 in the District of Columbia, United States Capitol, United States National Library of Medicine, Urbana, Maryland, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Washington Metro, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., White Flint Mall, White Flint station. Expand index (17 more) »

Address (geography)

An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used to give the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or apartment numbers.

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Battle of Fort Stevens

The Battle of Fort Stevens was an American Civil War battle fought July 11–12, 1864, in Northwest Washington, D.C., as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 between forces under Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Early and Union Major General Alexander McDowell McCook.

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Battle of Monocacy

The Battle of Monocacy (also known as Monocacy Junction) was fought on July 9, 1864, approximately from Frederick, Maryland, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the American Civil War.

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Bethesda station

Bethesda is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro system in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located just northwest of the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda.

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Cartesian coordinate system

A Cartesian coordinate system is a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular directed lines, measured in the same unit of length.

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Cathedral Heights

Cathedral Heights is a small, residential neighborhood located in the upper Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. It is approximately bounded by Woodley Road to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Wisconsin Avenue to the east, and Glover Archbold Park and Idaho Avenue to the west.

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Clarksburg, Maryland

Clarksburg is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in northern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located along the Interstate 270 technology corridor about 4 miles north of Germantown, Maryland.

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Cleveland Park

Cleveland Park is a residential neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. It is located at and bounded approximately by Rock Creek Park to the east, Wisconsin and Idaho Avenues to the west, Klingle and Woodley Roads to the south, and Rodman and Tilden Streets to the north.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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DC Circulator

The DC Circulator is a bus system in Washington, D.C. The District of Columbia Department of Transportation, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and DC Surface Transit operate the service in a public-private partnership with First Transit, although it has been proposed that the District of Columbia Department of Transportation operate the Circulator directly.

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Frederick County, Maryland

Frederick County is located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Frederick, Maryland

Frederick is a city in, and the county seat of, Frederick County in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Friendship Heights

Friendship Heights is an urban commercial and residential neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C. and southern Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Friendship Heights station

Friendship Heights is a Washington Metro station straddling the border of Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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Gaithersburg station

Gaithersburg is a historic passenger rail station on the MARC Brunswick Line between Washington, D.C. and Martinsburg, WV (with a branch to Frederick, MD).

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Gaithersburg, Maryland

Gaithersburg, officially the City of Gaithersburg, is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)

Georgetown is a historic neighborhood and a commercial and entertainment district located in northwest Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River.

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Georgetown street renaming

The Georgetown street renaming occurred as a result of an 1895 act of the United States Congress that ended even the nominal independence of Georgetown from Washington, D.C. The Act required, inter alia, that the street names in Georgetown be changed to conform to the street naming system in use in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. However, the old street names were shown on maps as late as 1899.

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Germantown, Maryland

Germantown is an urbanized census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Glover Park

Glover Park is a neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C., about a half mile north of Georgetown and just west of the United States Naval Observatory and Number One Observatory Circle (the Vice President's mansion).

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Grosvenor–Strathmore station

Grosvenor–Strathmore (formerly Grosvenor, pronounced /ˈɡroʊvnər/) is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro in North Bethesda, Maryland.

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History of Washington, D.C.

The history of Washington, D.C. is tied to its role as the capital of the United States.

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Interstate 270 (Maryland)

Interstate 270 (abbreviated I-270) is a auxiliary Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Maryland that travels between I-495 (the Capital Beltway) just north of Bethesda, Montgomery County and I-70 in the city of Frederick in Frederick County.

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Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway)

Interstate 495 (I-495) is a Interstate Highway that surrounds Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States of America, and the city's inner suburbs in adjacent Maryland and Virginia.

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Interstate 70

Interstate 70 (I-70) is a major Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from I-15 near Cove Fort, Utah to I-695 near Baltimore, Maryland.

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Jubal Early

Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a Virginia lawyer and politician who became a Confederate general during the American Civil War.

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K Street (Washington, D.C.)

K Street is a major thoroughfare in the United States capital of Washington, D.C. known as a center for numerous think tanks, lobbyists, and advocacy groups.

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Limited-stop

In public transit, a limited-stop bus, tram, or train service is a service that stops less frequently than local service.

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List of Metrobus routes (Washington, D.C.)

This is a list of bus routes operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), branded as Metrobus.

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M Street (Washington, D.C.)

The name "M Street" refers to two major roads in the United States capital of Washington, D.C. Because of the Cartesian coordinate system used to name streets in Washington, the name "M Street" can be used to refer to any east-west street located twelve blocks north or south of the dome of the United States Capitol (not thirteen blocks, as there is no J Street).

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MARC Train

MARC (Maryland Area Regional Commuter) Train Service, known prior to 1984 as Maryland Rail Commuter, is a commuter rail system comprising three lines in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Maryland Route 355

Maryland Route 355 (MD 355) is a north–south road in western central Maryland in the United States.

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Medical Center station (Washington Metro)

Medical Center is an island platformed Washington Metro station in Bethesda, Maryland, United States.

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Montgomery County, Maryland

Montgomery County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland, located adjacent to Washington, D.C. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 971,777, increasing by 9.0% to an estimated 1,058,810 in 2017.

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National Highway System (United States)

The National Highway System (NHS) is a network of strategic highways within the United States, including the Interstate Highway System and other roads serving major airports, ports, rail or truck terminals, railway stations, pipeline terminals and other strategic transport facilities.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s.

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National Institutes of Health campus

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus is located in Bethesda, Maryland.

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North Bethesda, Maryland

North Bethesda is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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Northwest, Washington, D.C.

Northwest (NW or N.W.) is the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street.

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Pennsylvania Avenue Line (Washington, D.C.)

The Pennsylvania Avenue Line, served by Routes 32, 34, and 36 (formerly served by Routes 30 and 35 as well) is a Metrobus bus route in Washington, D.C., United States.

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Pierre Charles L'Enfant

Pierre Charles L'Enfant (August 2, 1754June 14, 1825), self-identified as Peter Charles L'Enfant while living in the United States, was a French-American military engineer who designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C. (capital city of the U.S.) known today as the L'Enfant Plan (1791).

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Potomac River

The Potomac River is located within the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and flows from the Potomac Highlands into the Chesapeake Bay.

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Red Line (Washington Metro)

The Red Line of the Washington Metro rail rapid transit system serves 27 stations in Montgomery County, Maryland and the District of Columbia in the United States.

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Ride On (bus)

Ride On is the primary public transportation system in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Rockville station

Rockville is a joint Washington Metro, MARC, and Amtrak train station in Rockville in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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Rockville, Maryland

Rockville is a city and the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.

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Shady Grove station

Shady Grove is a Washington Metro station in Derwood in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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Street or road name

A street or road name or odonym is an identifying name given to a street.

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Strip mall

A strip mall (also called a shopping plaza, shopping center, or mini-mall) is an open-air shopping mall where the stores are arranged in a row, with a sidewalk in front.

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Tenleytown

Tenleytown is a historic neighborhood in Northwest, Washington, D.C.

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Tenleytown–AU station

Tenleytown–AU is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro in Washington, D.C. Located in the Upper Northwest neighborhood, it is the last station on the Red Line heading outbound wholly within the District of Columbia; the next stop, Friendship Heights, lies within both the District and the state of Maryland.

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Traffic congestion

Traffic congestion is a condition on transport networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing.

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Twinbrook station

Twinbrook is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro attached to the Twinbrook neighborhood of Rockville, Maryland.

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U.S. Route 15

U.S. Route 15 (US 15) is a -long United States highway, designated along South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York.

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U.S. Route 240

U.S. Route 240 is a defunct designation for a short, but once very important, segment of highway between Frederick, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

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U.S. Route 29 in the District of Columbia

U.S. Route 29 (US 29) in the District of Columbia is a U.S. highway which enters D.C. via Key Bridge from Arlington, Virginia, and exits at Silver Spring, Maryland.

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United States Capitol

The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol Building, is the home of the United States Congress, and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government.

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United States National Library of Medicine

The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library.

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Urbana, Maryland

Urbana is a suburban census-designated place located in Frederick County, Maryland, United States.

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Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), formerly known as the National Naval Medical Center and colloquially referred to as the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Walter Reed, or Navy Med, is a United States' tri-service military medical center, located in the community of Bethesda, Maryland, near the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health.

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Washington Metro

The Washington Metro, known colloquially as Metro and branded Metrorail, is the heavy rail rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area in the United States.

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Washington National Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the City and Diocese of Washington, commonly known as Washington National Cathedral, is a cathedral of the Episcopal Church located in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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White Flint Mall

White Flint Mall was a shopping mall located along Rockville Pike in Montgomery County, Maryland that closed in early 2015 and demolished thereafter.

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White Flint station

White Flint is an island platformed Washington Metro station in North Bethesda, Maryland, United States.

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Redirects here:

Frederick Road (Rockville), Urbana pike, Washington Turnpike (Washington), Wisconsin Ave, Wisconsin Avenue (Washington), Wisconsin Avenue (Washington, D.C.), Wisconsin Avenue NW, Wisconsin avenue.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Avenue

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