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Silver Spring
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community in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Maryland
- County
- Montgomery
- Total
- 7.91 sq mi (20.49 km )
- Land
- 7.88 sq mi (20.42 km )
- Water
- 0.031 sq mi (0.08 km )
- Elevation
- 272 ft (83 m)
- Density
- 10,277.1/sq mi (3,968.02/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 20901–20907 20910
- Area codes
- 301, 240
- Fips code
- 24-72450
- Highways
- I-495 US 29 MD 97 MD 193 MD 390 MD 410
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Silver Spring
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Montgomery County
- Population
- 81015
- Area
- 7.914
- Elevation
- 104
- Shares border with
- Langley Park
- Image
- Eleven55 Ripley.JPG
- Households
- 32114
- Dialing code
- 240
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- different from
- Silver Spring
- postal code
- 20997
- Commons category
- Silver Spring, Maryland
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Silver Spring, Maryland
- topic's main category
- Category:Silver Spring, Maryland
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Silver Spring, Maryland
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Silver Spring, Maryland
- native label
- Silver Spring
- inception
- 1887-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- Köppen climate classification
- humid subtropical climate
- per capita income
- 47206
- water as percent of area
- 0.366439
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, it is an edge city with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 census, making it the fifth-most-populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Germantown, and Waldorf.
Downtown Silver Spring, located next to the northern tip of Washington, D.C., is the oldest and most urbanized area of Silver Spring, surrounded by several inner suburban residential neighborhoods inside the Capital Beltway. Many mixed-use developments combining retail, residential, and office space have been built since 2004.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Silver Spring” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.