Communities
Several communities, some extinct, lie near Quantico Creek. Communities are listed from the Quantico's source to its mouth on the Potomac.
- Independent Hill
- Hickory Ridge (extinct)
- Batestown (extinct)
- Triangle
- Dumfries
- Quantico, site of the Marine Corps Base Quantico
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