The Colony

The Colony is a neighborhood in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. The Colony is situated nearby to the neighborhood North Germantown, as well as near Liberty Heights.

Places of Interest

Highlights include BlackRock Center for the Arts and Germantown Library.

BlackRock Center for the Arts

Arts center

The BlackRock Center for the Arts, officially the Germantown Cultural Arts Center, is a cultural, visual and performing arts center in Germantown, Maryland. The center is named after the nearby historic Blackrock Mill.

Germantown Library

Library

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

Germantown station

Railway station

Photo: Mitchazenia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Germantown and Boyds.

Germantown

Photo: Illegitimate Barrister, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Boyds

Hamlet

Photo: Illegitimate Barrister, Public domain.

Boyds is an unincorporated community in exurban Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located approximately 27 miles north of Washington, D.C. Its ZIP Code is 20841. Boyds is situated 3 miles west of The Colony.

Montgomery Village

Town

Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Montgomery Village is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, and a northern suburb of Washington, D.C. It is a large, planned suburban community, developed in the late 1960s and 1970s just outside Gaithersburg's city limits. Montgomery Village is situated 3 miles east of The Colony.

The Colony

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

39.17779° or 39° 10′ 40″ north

Longitude

-77.26141° or 77° 15′ 41″ west

Elevation

463 feet (141 metres)

Open location code

87F45PHQ+4C

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158501309

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=residential

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

GeoNames ID

4371133

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