Forest Heights
Forest Heights is a town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, and is part of the larger postal designation of Oxon Hill. The town straddles both sides of dual-lane Maryland Route 210 and includes two elementary schools.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,660 residents
- Description: town in Prince George’s County, Maryland, United States
- Also known as: “Forest Heights, Maryland” and “Forest Heights, MD”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bellevue/William O. Lockridge Library and MGM National Harbor.
Bellevue/William O. Lockridge Library
Library
Photo: Bookworm-ce, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bellevue/William O. Lockridge Neighborhood Library is part of the District of Columbia Public Library System. It was originally opened to the public in 1959.
MGM National Harbor
Casino
Photo: Maryland GovPics, CC BY 2.0.
MGM National Harbor is a casino hotel in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. It opened on December 8, 2016, and cost $1.4 billion. It is owned by Vici Properties and operated by MGM Resorts International.
Goose Island
Island
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Goose Island is a vanishing island located in the Potomac River in the southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is a rarely above-water mudflat located at the mouth of Oxon Creek, roughly between Oronoco Bay in Alexandria and Marbury Point, now part of the Blue Plains water treatment plant. Goose Island is situated 2 miles west of Forest Heights.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glassmanor and Oxon Hill.
Glassmanor
Village
Glassmanor is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 18,430.
Oxon Hill
Town
Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oxon Hill is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in southern Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Oxon Hill is a close suburb of Washington, located southeast of the downtown district and east of Alexandria, Virginia.
Bellevue
Neighborhood
Forest Heights
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Prince George’s County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.81523° or 38° 48′ 55″ northLongitude
-76.99859° or 76° 59′ 55″ westPopulation
2,660Elevation
157 feet (48 metres)Open location code
87C5R282+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 158629650OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4355230Wikidata ID
Q754626
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Forest Heights” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورست هايتس”
- Catalan: “Forest Heights”
- Cebuano: “Forest Heights”
- Chechen: “Форест-Гайтс (Мэриленд)”
- Chechen: “Форест-Гайтс”
- Chinese: “Forest Heights”
- Chinese: “福雷斯特海茨 (馬里蘭州)”
- Chinese: “福雷斯特海茨”
- Dutch: “Forest Heights”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فورست هايتس”
- French: “Forest Heights”
- German: “Forest Heights”
- Gilaki: “فؤرست هایتس (مريلند)”
- Gilaki: “فؤرست هایتس”
- Hungarian: “Forest Heights”
- Italian: “Forest Heights”
- Ladin: “Forest Heights”
- Mazanderani: “فارست هایتس (مریلند)”
- Mazanderani: “فارست هایتس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Forest Heights”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forest Heights”
- Norwegian: “Forest Heights”
- Persian: “فارست هایتس”
- Persian: “فریست هایت، مریلند”
- Polish: “Forest Heights”
- Portuguese: “Forest Heights”
- Serbian: “Форест Хајтс”
- Serbian: “Форист Хајтс (Мериленд)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forest Heights, Maryland”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forest Heights”
- Slovenian: “Forest Heights”
- Spanish: “Forest Heights (Maryland)”
- Spanish: “Forest Heights”
- Tatar: “Форест-Гайтс (Мэриленд)”
- Tatar: “Форест-Гайтс”
- Ukrainian: “Форест-Гайтс”
- Uzbek: “Forest Heights”
- Uzbek: “Форест Ҳеигҳц”
- Volapük: “Forest Heights”
- Welsh: “Forest Heights, Maryland”
- Welsh: “Forest Heights”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Oaks at Oxon Hill and Harbor Terrace.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church and Forest Heights Town Hall.
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