Snake Island

Snake Island is an island in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Snake Island is situated nearby to the village Brookmont, as well as near the neighborhood Glen Echo Heights.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda and Lock 6.

Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda

Government office

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The Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda is a campus in Brookmont, Maryland, containing offices for several agencies of the United States Intelligence Community.

Lock 6

River

Photo: Bonnachoven, CC0.

Lock 6 is a river.

Central Intelligence Agency

Military installation

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The George Bush Center for Intelligence is the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, located in the unincorporated community of Langley in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, near Washington, D.C. The headquarters is a conglomeration of the Original Headquarters Building and the New Headquarters Building and sits on a total of 258 acres of land.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brookmont and Glen Echo.

Brookmont

Village

Brookmont is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 3,751.

Glen Echo

Village

Photo: Ben Walther, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Glen Echo is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, that was chartered in 1904. The population was 279 at the 2020 census. Glen Echo is situated 1½ miles northwest of Snake Island.

Langley

Suburb

Photo: Patrickneil, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The name "Langley" often occurs as a metonym for the Central Intelligence Agency, whose headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence, is in Langley. Langley is situated 1½ miles west of Snake Island.

Snake Island

Type: Island
Category: landform
Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.949° or 38° 56′ 56″ north

Longitude

-77.12915° or 77° 7′ 45″ west

Elevation

33 feet (10 metres)

Open location code

87C4WVXC+J8

GeoNames ID

4369797

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