Grit Filter

Grit Filter is a building in Montgomery County, Capital Region, Maryland. Grit Filter is situated nearby to the settling basin Biological Treatment Ponds, as well as near the swimming pool Kiddie Pool.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Northwest High School and Germantown station.

Northwest High School

School

Photo: Lorax, CC BY 4.0.

Northwest High School is a public high school in Germantown, Maryland. It is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools public school system. As of 2022, it enrolled 2,484 students. Northwest High School is situated 2,800 feet north of Grit Filter.

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. Germantown station is situated 2 miles north of Grit Filter.

St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church

Church

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Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Gaithersburg is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Maryland in the United States. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Washington and its archbishop. St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church is situated 2 miles east of Grit Filter.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Germantown and Kentlands.

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.

Kentlands

Suburb

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Kentlands is a neighborhood of the U.S. city of Gaithersburg, Maryland. Kentlands was one of the first attempts to develop a community using Traditional Neighborhood Design planning techniques that are now generally referred to under the rubric of the New Urbanism. Kentlands is situated 2½ miles southeast of Grit Filter.

Darnestown

Village

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Darnestown is a United States census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland. The CDP is 17.70 square miles. As of the 2020 census, the Darnestown CDP had a population of 6,723, while the village of Darnestown is considerably smaller in size and population. Darnestown is situated 3 miles south of Grit Filter.

Grit Filter

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

39.14343° or 39° 8′ 36″ north

Longitude

-77.27799° or 77° 16′ 41″ west

Open location code

87F44PVC+9R

OpenStreetMap ID

way 167783446

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

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