18 and Point Loma’s GoodBar offers a grilled GoodBurger (above) for your consideration. By comparison, Southwest has very little land available, and a large chunk of this is occupied by Federal office buildings near the Capitol and south of the National Mall.National Cheeseburger Day is on Sunday, Sept. Some interesting conclusions here.while Northwest has the largest amount of non-NPS/non-military land in the city, both Southeast and Northeast have a higher percentage of their total area as non-NPS/non-military land. Note how there are no military bases in Northeast.įactoring out water area, NPS parkland, and military base area yields this remaining Land Area for each quadrant: 0.9% of the quadrant's total area.Īgain, Southwest takes the lion's share, thanks to the joint Anacostia Naval-Bolling AFB base. Military base/facility area (using OCTO's Military Locations Polygon shapefile, includes circles and triangles maintained by NPS) Roughly half of Northwest's NPS parkland is Rock Creek Park. NPS parkland also takes up a larger share of Northwest's total area than the other three quadrants. Here, Northwest takes the lion's share, with half the city's total. Northeast: 1.52 square miles (mostly Anacostia Park). NPS-parkland area (using OCTO's Parks Polygon shapefile) I didn't stop there, I also ran calculations for both National Park Service land (listed as NPS Map A) and military bases within DC. 96% of the quadrant's total area.Īs can be expected, Northwest has the lion's share of DC's land area, whereas less than 10% of the city's land area is in Southwest. Subtracting out water area from the total yields Land Area: By comparison, water covers relatively little of Northeast or Southeast, even with the Anacostia River in both. Almost three-fourths of the city's "water area" is in Southwest, and almost half of Southwest's total area is covered by water. 4% of the quadrant's total area.Īs you can see, DC's water is predominantly focused in Southwest, due largely to the Potomac, Washington Channel, and the Tidal Basin. Southwest: 5.26 square miles (Potomac, Channel, Tidal Basin, part of the Anacostia, etc). Northeast: 0.38 square miles (mostly the Anacostia). Northwest: 1.11 square miles (mostly the Potomac).
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Water area (using OCTO's Water Polygon shapefile and includes the creeks and some ponds): Only about 1/3 of the city is considered "south". So Northwest is by far the largest quadrant, followed by Northeast. Total area (including water) comes out like this: Blue-shaded polygons represent water, bright green shading represents NPS parkland and other while the orange shading represents military bases.
#WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL MALL QUICKMAP PLUS#
The red outline is the city boundary plus the quadrant boundaries. Here's a quick map I created using some of the shapefiles available from DC OCTO. So a quick project here, using shapefiles from DC OCTO.
A question brought up on a recent WashCycle post asks about the land/water area and percentages for the four DC quadrants (SW, SE, NW, NE).
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