Dogue Creek is an 8.5-mile-long (13.7 km)[1] 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 miles (5 km) of the creek form a tidal embayment of the Potomac to the east of Fort Belvoir.

Dogue Creek
Dogue Creek in the Jackson M. Abbott Wetland Refuge
Location
Country	United States
Location	Fairfax County, Virginia
Physical characteristics
Mouth
• location	Potomac River
• elevation	0 feet (0 m)
Length	8.5 miles (13.7 km)

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:

• Doag Creek
• Doeg Creek
• Dog's Creek
• Dogue Run
• Epsewassen Creek
• Epsewasson
• Epsewasson Creek
• Hopkins Creek
• Hopkins' Creek

See also

• List of rivers of Virginia

References

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