Forks Church

Forks Church is a church in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Forks Church is situated nearby to the suburb Piney Orchard, as well as near the town Crofton.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bowie State station and Bowie Race Track.

Bowie State station

Railway station

Photo: Woogers, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bowie State station is a regional rail station on the Northeast Corridor, located adjacent to the campus of Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland. It is served by MARC Penn Line commuter rail trains. Bowie State station is situated 2 miles southwest of Forks Church.

Bowie Race Track

Bowie Race Track was an American horse racing track located just outside the city limits of Bowie, Maryland. It operated from 1914 through 1985. The facility is now a training center for Thoroughbred racehorses. Bowie Race Track is situated 2½ miles south of Forks Church.

Don S. S. Goodloe House

Building

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The Don S. S. Goodloe House, a 1915–16 Colonial Revival style building veneered with brick, is significant for its association with Don Speed Smith Goodloe, the first principal of the Maryland Normal and Industrial School. Don S. S. Goodloe House is situated 2 miles southwest of Forks Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Piney Orchard and Bowie.

Piney Orchard

Suburb

Piney Orchard is an unincorporated community within the Washington DC suburb of Odenton, Maryland, United States. Piney Orchard began as a Planned Unit Development, and was a project of the Constellation Real Estate Group, Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Constellation Energy Group, which itself, is now owned by Exelon. Piney Orchard is situated 2½ miles northeast of Forks Church.

Bowie

Photo: J1729, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bowie is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,329 persons. Bowie, Maryland has grown from a small railroad town to the largest municipality in Prince George's County.

Crofton

Town

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Crofton is a census-designated place and planned community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States, located 9.8 miles west of the state capital Annapolis, 24 miles south of Baltimore, and 24 miles east-northeast of Washington, D.C. The community was established in 1964 and as of the 2020 census, it had a population of 29,136. Crofton is situated 4 miles southeast of Forks Church.

Forks Church

Type: Church
Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
Location: Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.03857° or 39° 2′ 19″ north

Longitude

-76.74536° or 76° 44′ 43″ west

Elevation

141 feet (43 metres)

Open location code

87F527Q3+CV

OpenStreetMap ID

way 528975456

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

GeoNames ID

4355297

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