Potomac is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, named for the nearby Potomac River. In 2013, CNNMoney.com listed Potomac as the most affluent town in all the United States based on median household income. Potomac is also the seventh most top-educated American small town according to Forbes. In addition, Bloomberg Businessweek labeled Potomac as the twenty-ninth richest zip code in all of the United States in 2011 and had the largest population of any U.S. town to have a median income of more than $240,000.
Population: 44,965
Latitude: 39° 01' 5.41" N
Longitude: -77° 12' 30.92" W
The Barnesville MARC Station in Barnesville, MD is a passenger rail station on the MARC Brunswick Line between Washington, D.C. and Martinsburg, WV (with and extension to Frederick, MD). It is located at 8 Beallsville Road (MD 109) in Barnesville, M…
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Artomatic is a multi-week, multimedia arts event held in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Alban Towers is an apartment building on Massachusetts Avenue in Northwest Washington, D.C.
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Velvet Nation was a gay dance event that took place at the Nation nightclub, formerly known as The Capitol Ballroom, located at 1015 Half Street, SE in Washington, D.C. The party name was derived from the venue name and "Velvet", an ode to the gay c…
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Valley Mill is a children's day summer camp and kayaking school in Germantown, Maryland.
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The Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the University of Maryland, College Park designs, implements, and evaluates new interface technologies that are universally usable, useful, efficient and appealing to a broad cross-section of people. To t…
The Tower Building is a historic high-rise building, located at 1401 K Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., and is the seventh tallest commercial building in Washington, D.C..