Rockville, Maryland
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Downtown Rockville in 2001, the Montgomery County Judicial Center in 2010, the Rockville Town Square in 2010, the Beall-Dawson House in 2005, and downtown Rockville in 2008.
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| Motto: "Get Into It!" | |||||
 Location in Montgomery County and the U.S. state of Maryland |
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| Coordinates: 39°5′1″N 77°8′54″W / 39.08361°N 77.14833°WCoordinates: 39°5′1″N 77°8′54″W / 39.08361°N 77.14833°W | |||||
| Country |  United States of America |
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 Montgomery
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| Settled | 1717 | ||||
| Founded | 1803 | ||||
| Incorporated | 1860 | ||||
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| • Mayor | Bridget Donnell Newton (I) | ||||
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| • City | 13.57 sq mi (35.15 km2) | ||||
| • Land | 13.51 sq mi (34.99 km2) | ||||
| • Water | 0.06 sq mi (0.16 km2) | ||||
| Elevation | 451 ft (137 m) | ||||
| Population (2010) | |||||
| • City | 61,209 | ||||
| • Estimate (2014) | 65,937 | ||||
| • Density | 4,530.6/sq mi (1,749.3/km2) | ||||
| • Metro | 5,306,565 | ||||
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) | ||||
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) | ||||
| ZIP code | 20847-53 & 20857 | ||||
| Area code(s) | 301, 240 | ||||
| FIPS code | 24-67675 | ||||
| GNIS feature ID | 0586901 | ||||
| Website | www |
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Rockville is a city located in the central region of Montgomery County, Maryland. It is the county seat and is a major incorporated city of Montgomery County and forms part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. The 2010 census tabulated Rockville's population at 61,209, making it the third largest incorporated city in Maryland, behind Baltimore and Frederick. Rockville is the largest incorporated city in Montgomery County, Maryland, although the nearby census-designated place of Germantown is more populous.
Rockville, along with neighboring Gaithersburg and Bethesda, is at the core of the Interstate 270 Technology Corridor which is home to numerous software and biotechnology companies as well as several federal government institutions. The city also has several upscale regional shopping centers and is one of the major retail hubs in Montgomery County.
Situated in the Piedmont region and crossed by three creeks (Rock Creek, Cabin John Creek, and Watts Branch), Rockville provided an excellent refuge for semi-nomadic Native Americans as early as 8000 BC. By the first millennium BC, a few of these groups had settled down into year-round agricultural communities that exploited the native flora, including sunflowers and marsh elder. By AD 1200, these early groups (dubbed Montgomery Indians by later archaeologists) were increasingly drawn into conflict with the Senecas and Susquehannocks who had migrated south from Pennsylvania and New York. Within the present-day boundaries of the city, six prehistoric sites have been uncovered and documented, along with numerous artifacts several thousand years old. By the year 1700, under pressure from European colonists, the majority of these original inhabitants had been driven away.
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