Brown
Brown is a locality in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Brown is situated nearby to the neighborhood Metropolitan Grove, as well as near Orchard Place.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Metropolitan Grove station and Gaithersburg Library.
Metropolitan Grove station
Railway station
Metropolitan Grove is a passenger rail station in Gaithersburg, Maryland on the MARC Brunswick Line. The Brunswick line runs between Washington, D.C. and Martinsburg, WV.
Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory
Monument
Photo: BobDrzyzgula, Public domain.
The Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory is a historic astronomical observatory on DeSellum Avenue in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It was established in 1899 as part of a system of six International Latitude Observatories to precisely measure the wobble of the Earth's rotating axis.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gaithersburg and Kentlands.
Gaithersburg
Photo: Maryland GovPics, CC BY 2.0.
Gaithersburg is a city of 70,000 people in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is a suburb of Washington, D.C.…
Kentlands
Suburb
Photo: Jdmalouff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kentlands is a neighborhood of the U.S. city of Gaithersburg, Maryland. Kentlands was one of the first attempts to develop a community using Traditional Neighborhood Design planning techniques that are now generally referred to under the rubric of the New Urbanism. Kentlands is situated 2 miles southwest of Brown.
Montgomery Village
Town
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Montgomery Village is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, and a northern suburb of Washington, D.C. It is a large, planned suburban community, developed in the late 1960s and 1970s just outside Gaithersburg's city limits. Montgomery Village is situated 2 miles north of Brown.
Brown
- Type: Locality
- Also known as: “Brown Station”
- Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.14648° or 39° 8′ 47″ northLongitude
-77.21696° or 77° 13′ 1″ westElevation
443 feet (135 metres)Open location code
87F44QWM+H6OpenStreetMap ID
node 158578797OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
4349651
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