The North Atlantic Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is one of the nine permanent divisions within the Corps.

Made up of roughly 3,700 employees in six districts and a Division headquarters, the North Atlantic Division is a major subordinate command and serves to integrate the capabilities of its six districts. They plan, design and build for the Army and Air Force in the northeastern states and Europe, develop and manage water resources, and protect and restore the environment. They also work for other international, federal, state and local customers and agencies.

Division headquarters are at 302 John Warren Avenue in Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, New York. The division is responsible for six subordinate engineer districts with headquarters in Concord, Massachusetts, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk and Wiesbaden, Germany.

Following the American Civil War, rapid increases in civil works construction requirements to support economic growth drove the Army Corps of Engineers to establish many new engineer districts to manage the work. The Corps' national headquarters needed an intermediate level of command and control to manage the districts, so it created several division headquarters including the Northeast Division based in New York City in November 1888.

The Corps of Engineers reorganized in 1929 to reduce division headquarters and merged the Eastern Division with the Northeast Division, forming the North Atlantic Division.

During World War II while working out of its headquarters at 270 Broadway in Manhattan, the division was responsible for coordinating all military construction in Europe. It also provided staff members and administrative support to the newly created Manhattan District's construction of nuclear bomb, which was code named the Manhattan Project because the district and division's offices being initially co-located.

The division commanding general is currently Col. Jesse T. Curry, who is directly responsible to the United States Army's Chief of Engineers. Within the authorities delegated, the division commander directs and supervises the individual district commanders. The division commander also serves as the federal representative on the Delaware River Basin Commission, Susquehanna River Basin Commission and the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin.

Engineer Districts

New England New York Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Baltimore, Maryland Norfolk, Virginia U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District

List of Commanders COL Jesse Curry, 2025 - BG John Lloyd, 2022 - 2025 MG Thomas Tickner, 2020 - 2022 MG Jeffrey Milhorn, 2018 – 2020 MG William H. Graham, Jr. 2015 – 2018 MG Kent D. Savre, 2012 – 2015 BG Peter A. DeLuca, 2009 – 2011 LTG Todd T. Semonite, 2006 – 2009 LTG William T. Grisoli, 2005 – 2006 MG Merdith W. B. Temple, 2002 – 2005 BG M. Stephen Rhoades, 1999 – 2002 LTG Jerry L. Sinn, 1997 – 1999 MG Milton Hunter 1994 - 1997 BG Paul Chinen, 1992-1994 BG C Brown 1989-1992 MG James W. van Loben Sels, 1988-1989 MG Charles Williams, 1986-1988 BG Paul F. Kavanaugh, 1984-1986 BG Thomas Sands, 1981-1984 MG Bennett L. Lewis, 1979-1981 MG James Allen Johnson, 1977-1979 MG James Kelly, 1974-1977 MG Richard H. Groves, 1971-1974 MG Charles M. Duke, 1968-1971 BG Francis P. Koisch, 1966-1968 LTG David Stuart Parker, 1965-1966 BG John Dalrymple, 1962-1965 BG Thomas H. Lipscomb, 1959-1962 BG Clarence Renshaw, 1954-1959 BG Benjamin B. Talley, 1952-1954 COL Frederick Frech, 1950-1952 BG George J. Nold, 1948-1949 BG Beverly C. Dunn, 1946-1948 COL Charles L. Hall, 1945-1946 COL Albert H. Burton, 1944-1945 BG John Neal Hodges, 1940-1944 [Deployed to North Africa 21 May 1942 – 22 Sep 1943] MG Francis Bowditch Wilby, 1938-1939 COL Edmund L. Daley, 1937-1938 MG Ernest Dichmann Peek, 1936-1937 COL George R. Spalding, 1935-1936 COL Gustave Lukesh, 1935-1935 COL James A. Woodruff, 1934-1935 COL George M. Hoffman, 1931-1934 COL William J. Barden, 1928-1931 [During Barden's command, the Northeast Division was merged with the Eastern Division and renamed the North Atlantic Division, part of major reorganization of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers early in the Herbert Hoover administration]

Northeast Division commanders

COL Herbert Deakyne, 1925-1926 COL William B. LaDue, 1924-1925 and 1926-1927 COL Henry C. Newcomer, 1922-1924 COL Eden Everett Winslow, 1921-1922 COL James C. Sanford, 1920-1921 BG William C. Langfitt, 1919-1920 BG Theodore A. Bingham, 1917-1919 BG William T. Rossell, 1917-1918 COL Frederic Vaughan Abbot, 1913-1917 MG William Murray Black, 1909-1913 COL John G.D. Knight, 1907-1909 COL Amos Stickney, 1906-1907 COL Charles R. Sutter, 1901-1906 COL G.L. Gillespie, 1897-1901 BG John Moulder Wilson, 1895-1897 BG Henry Larcom Abbot, 1888-1895

Eastern Division commanders

MG Peter C. Hains, 1917-1918

References

External links

Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin