National Capital Area Council

National Capital Area Council
Council gateway during the 1993 National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill
Owner	Boy Scouts of America
Location	Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, United States Virgin Islands
Country	United States
Coordinates	39°00′26″N 77°05′53″W / 39.007331°N 77.097976°W / 39.007331; -77.097976
Founded	1911
President	Robert Wood
Council Commissioner	Garry Lewis
Scout Executive	Les Baron
Website ncacbsa.org

Goshen Scout Reservation
Owner	National Capital Area Council
Location	340 Millard Burke Memorial Highway (VA Route 601) Goshen, Virginia 22439
Lake Merriweather Camp PMI Camp Bowman Goshen Dam Camp Post Camp Olmsted Camp Ross Camp Baird Camp Marriott
Coordinates	37°58′01″N 79°28′10″W / 37.967°N 79.4695°W / 37.967; -79.4695
Camp size	4,000-acre (16 km2)
Founded	1967 (1967)
Website ncacbsa.org/outdoors/goshen-camps

Camp William B. Snyder
Marriott Dining Hall at Camp William B. Snyder
Location	6100 Antioch Road Haymarket, VA, 20169
Camp William B. Snyder Show map of Northern Virginia Camp William B. Snyder Show map of the US
Coordinates	38°48′36″N 77°41′26″W / 38.8100879°N 77.6904586°W / 38.8100879; -77.6904586
Camp size	405 acres (1.64 km2)
Founded	May 6, 2006 (May 6, 2006)
Website ncacbsa.org/outdoors/camp-william-b-snyder

Camp Howard M. Wall
Location	Boy Scout Camp, Christiansted Saint Croix, 00820 USVI
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Coordinates	17°43′00″N 64°40′01″W / 17.7167907°N 64.6669458°W / 17.7167907; -64.6669458
Camp size	19-acre (0.077 km2)
Website scoutparadise.org

Camp Roosevelt
Location	Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
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Coordinates	38°38′17″N 76°31′41″W / 38.638052°N 76.528076°W / 38.638052; -76.528076
Founded	1914
Defunct	1967

Amangamek-Wipit Lodge
Totem	Arrow & Washington Monument superimposed on a shark tooth
Founded	1952
Lodge Chief	Nate Dudley
Lodge Vice Chief	Beckman Hollis
Lodge Adviser	Art Widmann
Staff Adviser	Don Durbin
Website ncacbsa.org/program/order-of-the-arrow

The National Capital Area Council (NCAC) is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America within the Northeast Region and serves Scouts in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and the United States Virgin Islands. The council offers extensive training, and administrative support to units. It is rated as a "Class 100" council by the National Council (headquarters office), which denotes that the NCAC is among the very largest in the country. Chartered in 1911, it is also one of the oldest. The council is divided into 23 districts serving ten counties in Northern Virginia, six counties in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the US Virgin Islands. The council has a 2.5 to 1 ratio of youth members to adult leaders, which is among the highest of all the councils. The youth retention rate approaches 80%.

William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America at 11:03 am on February 8, 1910 in the district on the advice of railroad executive and later first national president of the organization Colin H. Livingstone, with assistance from lawyers at the firm Ralston, Siddons and Richardson. A year later the National Capital Area Council was formed. The oldest unit in the council is Troop 52, out of All Saints Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase. This unit dates all the way back to 1913. When the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia decided that the security of suffrage marchers in 1916 was not their problem, Troop 52 Scouts took up that duty. Starting in 1996 the council annually sponsored the Commodore Henry I. Nygard Regatta along with the Friends of Sea Scouts of Maryland.

Many have served as council executive over the years. Linn Drake "headed the council through two world wars, [and] a depression." Clarence F. Urferr served as council executive from September 1, 1944 to March 1946, when he moved to Dallas to take over Region 3. Kenneth Spears served as council executive from March 1946 to 1851, when he was recalled by the US Air Force in the Korean War. Randolf Flythe left the council executive position to become the Northeast regional director. Ron Carroll served as council executive from 1990 to 2005. The most famous member of the council advisory board was Vince Lombardi.