Dogue Creek

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Dogue Creek is an 8.5 mi tributary of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia, named for the Tauxenent Indigenous Native American People also known as Doeg people. The lower 3 mi of the creek form a tidal embayment of the Potomac to the east of Fort Belvoir.

Variant names

The Board on Geographic Names decided upon Dogue Creek as the stream's official name in 1892. Previously, it had been known by the following names according to the Geographic Names Information System:

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