Olney
Olney, along with its smaller neighbors Sandy Spring and Brookeville, lies in the northeast of Montgomery County, Maryland. All three are quiet, wealthy towns and exurbs of Washington, D.C., home to a good-sized Quaker population, and with a more rural, slower-paced character than other suburbs of D.C.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
MedStar Montgomery Medical Center
Hospital
MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, formerly known as Montgomery General Hospital, is a large hospital in Olney, Maryland. The hospital is part of MedStar Health.
Olney Theatre Center
Theater building
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Located in Olney, Maryland, the Olney Theatre Center is one of the two official state theaters of Maryland. Olney Theatre Center is situated on 14 acres in the middle of the Washington–Baltimore–Frederick "triangle." There are three indoor venues: the Historic Theatre, the Roberts Mainstage, and the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brookeville and Leisure World.
Brookeville
Village
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Brookeville is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, located 20 km north of Washington, D.C., and 2 km north of Olney. Brookeville was settled by Quakers late in the 18th century and was incorporated as a town in 1808.
Leisure World
Village
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Leisure World is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is an age-restricted, gated development primarily inhabited by retirees. Leisure World is situated 3½ miles south of Olney.
Sandy Spring
Village
Sandy Spring is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. Sandy Spring is situated 2 miles east of Olney.
Olney
Latitude
39.1532° or 39° 9′ 12″ northLongitude
-77.0668° or 77° 4′ 1″ westPopulation
31,000Elevation
541 feet (165 metres)United Nations Location Code
US OEYOpen location code
87F45W3M+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 158376496OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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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