Glenmont, Maryland

Glenmont, Maryland
Census-designated place
The Kensington fire station in May 2013.
Location of Glenmont in the U.S. state of Maryland
Country	United States of America
State	Maryland
County	Montgomery
Area
• Land	2.80 sq mi (7.3 km2)
Population (2010)
• Total	13,529
GNIS feature ID	2583632

Glenmont is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland. The United States Census Bureau had combined Glenmont with nearby Wheaton to create the census-designated place of Wheaton-Glenmont, from 2000 to 2010. It had a population of 13,529 in 2010.

Due to its unincorporated nature, the boundaries are difficult to precisely define, but the center of the community is located at the intersection of Randolph Road and Georgia Avenue (Maryland State Highway 97).

The village of Glenmont (sometimes spelled Glenmount) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries contained a few houses and small farms lining the Washington-Brookville Turnpike, as Georgia Avenue was then called. The area had a post office since at least 1900.

Glenmont's first school opened in 1926. Located on current-day Georgia Avenue, the school served students from Glenmont, Aspen Hill, Layhill, and Wheaton.

The area remained largely undeveloped until after World War II, when suburbanization began with the construction of subdivisions in Glenmont. The State Roads Commission began planning to widen Georgia Avenue in 1948. Commercial and residential development began transforming the rural area known as Glenmont in 1949 with two major developments, Glenmont Village and Glenmont Forest.

In 1947 the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission built the 189-foot (58 m) tall Glenmont Water Tower, which is a multi‐columned elevated water tank with a 500,000-U.S.-gallon (1,900,000 L) capacity.

Glenmont is a suburban crossroads of sorts. Georgia Avenue (Maryland Route 97) passes through the community. Southbound along Georgia Avenue is Wheaton, downtown Silver Spring, and the District of Columbia. North of Glenmont on Georgia Avenue is Aspen Hill (another unincorporated community) and Leisure World, a large retirement community. Route 97 continues north through Howard and Carroll counties to Pennsylvania.