What is "little falls"

Little Falls may refer to:

• Little Falls, Maine
• Little Falls, Minnesota
• Little Falls, New Jersey
  • Little Falls (NJT station)
• Little Falls (city), New York
• Little Falls (town), New York
• Little Falls (Potomac River), a set of rapids downstream of Great Falls near Washington, DC
  • Little Falls Branch (Potomac River)
  • Little Falls Park, Montgomery County, Maryland
  • Little Falls Parkway, Montgomery County, Maryland
• Little Falls, Wisconsin, a town
• Little Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Vader, Washington, formerly Little Falls
• Little Falls, Virginia
• Little Falls Dam, across the Mississippi River near Little Falls, Minnesota
• Little Falls Meetinghouse, a Friends meetinghouse in Fallston, Maryland

• Little Falls (Hamilton, Ontario), a waterfall
• Little Falls, a community in Ramara, Ontario

• Little Falls, a community in Greater Johannesburg

Little Falls is the second of two station maintained by New Jersey Transit in Little Falls, New Jersey. The station, on the Montclair-Boonton Line is the first to receive limited revenue service due to the end of electrification at the site of the former Great Notch station. Little Falls station, located at Union Avenue ( Passaic County Route 646) in downtown has one side platform with the 1915 station depot, built of brick on the side. The station contains one track for revenue service, and a passing siding for trains. The station is the eighth fare zone, costing $7.75 for a one-way ticket to Hoboken Terminal and a dollar more to transfer at Newark Broad Street to New York Pennsylvania Station. The station has 194 parking spaces, 134 on Railroad Avenue at Montclair Avenue and sixty more along Montclair Avenue. A ticket machine is available. The station is not accessible for handicapped persons. Anyone wishing to receive train service for handicapped must go to Montclair State University station or Wayne Route 23 Transit Center across the Passaic River in Wayne.

Little Falls is a terraced ribbon cascade waterfall found in Ancaster, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Also known as Waterfall on Wilson Street.

Nearby attractions include the Bruce Trail, Dundas Valley Conservation Area, Hermitage ruins, Griffin House, Fieldcote Memorial Park & Museum, Royal Botanical Gardens, Dundurn Castle, Crooks Hollow Conservation Area, Christie Lake Conservation Area, Tiffany Falls, Tiffany Falls Conservation Area.

Little Falls is an area of rapids located where the Potomac River crosses the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, descending from the harder and older rocks of the Piedmont Plateau to the softer sediments of the Atlantic coastal plain. Situated at the point where Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia meet, it is the first "cataract", or barrier, to navigation encountered on the Potomac River in going upstream. It may be viewed from the heavily-trafficked Chain Bridge, about a half mile downstream. It is named in contradistinction to Great Falls, about 5 miles further upstream.

Captain John Smith (1580–1631) of England was the first European to explore the Potomac as far as Little Falls. When he arrived there in 1608 he noted that "as for deer, buffaloes, bears and turkeys, the woods do swarm with them and the soil is extremely fertile." By 1757, the name of a nearby Anglican Church building — "The Falls Church" — referenced this location near the main tobacco rolling road circumventing Little Falls. The local settlement of Falls Church, Virginia, which grew up there, soon followed suit.