Takoma Park
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city in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, suburb of Washington, DC
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Maryland
- County
- Montgomery
- Type
- Municipal council-manager
- Total
- 2.10 sq mi (5.43 km )
- Land
- 2.09 sq mi (5.41 km )
- Water
- 0.0039 sq mi (0.01 km )
- Elevation
- 240 ft (73 m)
- Density
- 8,433.6/sq mi (3,256.24/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Area codes
- 301, 240
- Fips code
- 24-76650
- Website
- takomaparkmd .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Takoma Park, MD | Official Website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Takoma Park
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Montgomery County
- Population
- 17629
- Area
- 5.406859
- Elevation
- 88
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Shares border with
- Langley Park
- Official website
- takomaparkmd.gov
- Image
- Takoma Park downtown.JPG
- Households
- 6619
- Dialing code
- 240
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- postal code
- 20912
- Commons category
- Takoma Park, Maryland
- topic's main category
- Category:Takoma Park, Maryland
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Takoma Park, Maryland
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Takoma Park, Maryland
- inception
- 1883-11-00
- social media followers
- 4040
- P12749
- Rainald Goetz
- male population
- 8590
- female population
- 9082
- water as percent of area
- 0.2576
- per capita income
- 46450
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Encyclopedic overview
Takoma Park is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a suburb of Washington, D.C., and part of the Washington metropolitan area. Founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1890, Takoma Park, informally called "Azalea City", is a Tree City USA and a nuclear-free zone. A planned commuter suburb, it is situated along the Metropolitan Branch of the historic Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, just northeast of Washington, D.C., and it shares a border and history with the adjacent Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Takoma. It is governed by an elected mayor and six elected councilmembers, who form the city council, and an appointed city manager, under a council-manager style of government. The city's population was 17,629 at the 2020 United States census.
Since 2013, residents of Takoma Park can vote in municipal elections when they turn sixteen. It was the first city in the United States to extend voting rights to 16- and 17-year-olds in city elections. Since then, the City of Hyattsville has followed suit.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Takoma Park” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.