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==Geography== Cabin John is in southern Montgomery County, less than {{convert|4|mi|0}} northwest of the border of the [[District of Columbia]], and bordered to the south by the Potomac River and the state of [[Virginia]]. It contains a section of the [[Chesapeake and Ohio Canal]] (C&O), including locks 8 through 12. The community is the access point to [[Plummers Island]] in the Potomac, originally owned by the Washington Biologists' Field Club and called "the most thoroughly studied island in North America." As an unincorporated area, Cabin John's boundaries are not officially defined. Cabin John is, however, recognized by the [[United States Census Bureau]] as a [[census-designated place]], and by the [[United States Geological Survey]] as a populated place located at {{coord|38|58|30|N|77|9|33|W|type:city}} (38.975110, −77.159281).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=2011-04-23 |date=2011-02-12 |title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> The CDP borders are the [[Capital Beltway]] (I-495) to the west and north, [[Cabin John Parkway]] to the northeast, and the Maryland–Virginia state line to the south, along the south shore of the Potomac River. The [[Clara Barton Parkway]] parallels the Potomac and the C&O Canal, leading southeast into Washington. [[Downtown (Washington, D.C.)|Downtown]] is {{convert|9|mi|0}} to the southeast. According to the census bureau, the Cabin John CDP has a total area of {{convert|1.64|sqmi|2}}, of which {{convert|1.22|sqmi|2}} are land and {{convert|0.42|sqmi|2}}, or 26.51%, are water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2022"/> Before the construction of the Cabin John Parkway in the mid-1960s, the area was considered to extend north to River Road ([[Maryland Route 190]]). The Cabin John Parkway is a spur road that connects the Clara Barton Parkway to the Capital Beltway following the Cabin John Creek valley and passing under the Union Arch Bridge. Originally, the banks of the creek nearly reached the full width of the arch, but the parkway required about half the creek's width be converted into roadway.<ref name="JWelles"/> Historically, Cabin John has been part of the region known as the Potomac Gorge (Potomac Palisades), an approximately {{convert|15|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} corridor or "fall zone" that sees a transition between the hard bedrock of the [[Piedmont (United States)|Piedmont]] to the softer rocks and soils of the [[Atlantic Coastal Plain]] and representing a drop in elevation from {{convert|140|ft}} to about {{convert|10|ft}} above sea level.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Potomac Gorge (Potomac Palisades) |url= https://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/items/show/483 |access-date=13 October 2021 |work= DC Historic Sites }}</ref>
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