Sycamore Island

Sycamore Island is an islet in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Sycamore Island is situated nearby to the neighborhood Glen Echo Heights, as well as near Mohican Hills.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Central Intelligence Agency and Kryptos.

Central Intelligence Agency

Military installation

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

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.

Kryptos

Work of art

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.

Lock 7

River

Photo: Bonnachoven, CC0.

Lock 7 is a river.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glen Echo and Brookmont.

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.

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.

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 southwest of Sycamore Island.

Sycamore Island

Type: Islet
Categories: locality and landform
Location: Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.95765° or 38° 57′ 28″ north

Longitude

-77.13339° or 77° 8′ 0″ west

Elevation

36 feet (11 metres)

Open location code

87C4XV58+3J

OpenStreetMap ID

way 21694421

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

4370862

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Localities in the Area

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