Wheaton
Wheaton is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is a suburb of Washington D.C.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 52,200 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
- Also known as: “Mitchell’s Crossroads”, “Mitchells Cross Roads”, “Wheaton, Maryland”, and “Wheaton, MD”
- Neighbors: Glenmont and Kensington
Photo: Evrik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kensington station and Washington D.C. Temple.
Kensington station
Railway station
Kensington is a passenger railroad station at 10417 Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland, United States. Opened by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1891, the Kensington station is today served by MARC Train's Brunswick Line, which makes 15 weekday scheduled stops at Kensington, plus one flag stop on Fridays.
Washington D.C. Temple
Church
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The Washington D.C. Temple is the 16th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in Kensington, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., and the Capital Beltway, it became the church's first temple east of the Mississippi River since the original Nauvoo Temple, completed in 1846.
Brookside Gardens
Park
Photo: Rkphoto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brookside Gardens is a 54-acre public display garden located in Wheaton Regional Park, at 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland. The gardens feature two conservatories and a variety of distinct garden areas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kensington and Glenmont.
Kensington
Photo: Caseyjonz, Public domain.
Kensington is a suburb of Washington, D.C. in the Capital Region of Maryland with a population of about 2,100 people in 2020. The main reasons to visit are antique shopping at Antique Row, to see the enormous Mormon Temple, and one great pizza place.
Glenmont
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Glenmont is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is a suburb of Washington D.C.
Silver Spring
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Silver Spring is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is considered to be an "edge city". It sits next door to Washington, DC, and had about 82,000 residents in 2018.
Wheaton
Latitude
39.0398° or 39° 2′ 23″ northLongitude
-77.0553° or 77° 3′ 19″ westPopulation
52,200Elevation
466 feet (142 metres)Open location code
87F42WQV+WVOpenStreetMap ID
node 157633230OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4373349Wikidata ID
Q7991947
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Wheaton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويتون”
- Basque: “Wheaton”
- Cebuano: “Wheaton”
- Chinese: “惠頓”
- Czech: “Wheaton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويتون, ماريلاند”
- French: “Wheaton”
- German: “Wheaton”
- Gilaki: “ویتؤن (مريلند)”
- Gilaki: “ویتؤن”
- Irish: “Wheaton”
- Italian: “Wheaton”
- Japanese: “ホイートン (メリーランド州)”
- Ladin: “Wheaton”
- Persian: “ویتون، مریلند”
- Persian: “ویتون”
- Polish: “Wheaton”
- Russian: “Уитон”
- Serbian: “Витон (Мериленд)”
- Serbian: “Витон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wheaton, Maryland”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wheaton”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویتون، مریلند”
- Spanish: “Wheaton (Maryland)”
- Spanish: “Wheaton”
- Tatar: “Витон (Мэриленд)”
- Tatar: “Витон”
- Ukrainian: “Вітон”
- Urdu: “ویٹن، میری لینڈ”
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