Gunners Branch

Gunners Branch is a stream in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Gunners Branch is situated nearby to the neighborhood Pleasant Fields, as well as near Williamsburg Square.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Northwest High School and St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church.

Northwest High School

School

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Northwest High School is a public high school in Germantown, Maryland. It is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools public school system. As of 2022, it enrolled 2,484 students.

St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church

Church

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Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Gaithersburg is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Maryland in the United States. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Washington and its archbishop.

Germantown station

Railway station

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Germantown station is a passenger rail station on the MARC Brunswick Line between Washington, D.C., and Martinsburg, West Virginia. It is one of the busiest stations on the Brunswick Line along with Silver Spring and Rockville stations. Germantown station is situated 2 miles north of Gunners Branch.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kentlands and Germantown.

Kentlands

Suburb

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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 2½ miles southeast of Gunners Branch.

Germantown

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Germantown is an urbanized census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. With a population of 91,249 as of the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous community in Maryland, after Baltimore and Columbia.

Darnestown

Village

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Darnestown is a United States census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland. The CDP is 17.70 square miles. As of the 2020 census, the Darnestown CDP had a population of 6,723, while the village of Darnestown is considerably smaller in size and population. Darnestown is situated 3 miles southwest of Gunners Branch.

Gunners Branch

Type: Stream
Also known as: “Gunner Creek”
Category: body of water
Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.14594° or 39° 8′ 45″ north

Longitude

-77.26776° or 77° 16′ 4″ west

Elevation

269 feet (82 metres)

Open location code

87F44PWJ+9V

GeoNames ID

4357082

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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Pleasant Fields and Williamsburg Square.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include South Gunners Branch Park and Clopper Lake.

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