Olney

Olney, along with its smaller neighbors Sandy Spring and Brookeville, lies in the northeast of , . All three are quiet, wealthy towns and exurbs of , home to a good-sized Quaker population, and with a more rural, slower-paced character than other suburbs of D.C.
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  • Type: Town with 31,000 residents
  • Description: census-designated place and unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, suburb of Washington, DC
  • Also known as: “Fair Hill”, “Machanicsville”, “Mechanicsville”, “Olney, Maryland”, and “Olney, MD”
  • Postal codes: 20830 and 20832

Places of Interest

Highlights include MedStar Montgomery Medical Center and Olney Theatre Center.

Hospital
, formerly known as Montgomery General Hospital and Montgomery County General Hospital before then, is a large hospital in Olney, Maryland. The hospital is part of MedStar Health.

Theater building
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Located in Olney, Maryland, the is one of the two official state theaters of Maryland. is situated on 14 acres in the middle of the –– "triangle." There are three indoor venues: the Historic Theatre, the Roberts Mainstage, and the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab.

Library
Photo: Lorax, CC BY 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brookeville and Leisure World.

Village
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is a town in , located 20 km north of , and 2 km north of Olney. was settled by Quakers late in the 18th century and was incorporated as a town in 1808.

Village
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in , United States. It is an age-restricted, gated development primarily inhabited by retirees. is situated 3½ miles south of Olney.

Village
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is an unincorporated community in , United States. is situated 2 miles east of Olney.

Olney

Latitude
39.1532° or 39° 9′ 12″ north
Longitude
-77.0668° or 77° 4′ 1″ west
Population
31,000
Elevation
541 feet (165 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US OEY
Open location code
87F45W3M+77
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158376496
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4364537
Wiki­data ID
Q754434
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Olney” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أولني”
  • Azerbaijani: “Olney”
  • Basque: “Olney”
  • Catalan: “Olney”
  • Cebuano: “Olney”
  • Chinese: “Olney”
  • Chinese: “奧爾尼”
  • Chinese: “馬里蘭州奧爾尼”
  • Chinese: “马里兰州奥尔尼”
  • Danish: “Olney”
  • Dutch: “Olney”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اولنى”
  • Finnish: “Olney”
  • French: “Olney”
  • Galician: “Olney”
  • German: “Olney”
  • Gilaki: “اولنی (مريلند)”
  • Gilaki: “اولنی”
  • Greek: “‘Ολνι”
  • Hebrew: “אולני”
  • Irish: “Olney”
  • Italian: “Olney”
  • Japanese: “オルニー (メアリーランド州)”
  • Japanese: “オルニー (メリーランド州)”
  • Japanese: “オルニー”
  • Kazakh: “Olnéý”
  • Kazakh: “Олнэй”
  • Kazakh: “ولنەي”
  • Kirghiz: “Олнэй”
  • Ladin: “Olney”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Olney”
  • Persian: “اولنی”
  • Persian: “ولنی، مریلند”
  • Polish: “Olney”
  • Portuguese: “Olney”
  • Russian: “Олни”
  • Serbian: “Олни”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Olney, Maryland”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Olney”
  • Slovenian: “Olney”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اولنئی، مریلند”
  • Spanish: “Olney (Maryland)”
  • Spanish: “Olney”
  • Swedish: “Olney”
  • Tatar: “Олни (Мэриленд)”
  • Tatar: “Олни”
  • Ukrainian: “Олні”
  • Urdu: “اولنی، میری لینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Olney”
  • Uzbek: “Олней”
  • Volapük: “Olney”

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