Camp Springs, Maryland Camp Springs, Maryland Location of Camp Springs, Maryland Location of Camp Springs, Maryland Camp Springs is an unincorporated region and census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The populace was 19,096 at the 2010 census. Camp Springs is not an official postal service designation; the region is divided between the encircling mailing addresses of Temple Hills, Fort Washington, Clinton, and Suitland.
The improve of Camp Springs was settled in the mid-19th century at the crossroads of present-day Branch Avenue and Allentown Road.
The town's prominent name, and later the name of its postal service, was Camp Springs.
According to small-town history, the improve was called Camp Springs since soldiers en route to Fort Meade from the District of Columbia found the region to be a comfortable place to camp due to the abundant springs.
Throughout the late- 19th and early 20th centuries, the Camp Springs region did not experience momentous growth.
However, the opening of Andrews AFB on an adjoining tract of land, the adjacency of the region to the District of Columbia, and a housing shortage after World War II made the Camp Springs region an ideal locale for residentiary development. Most of the evolution in the Camp Springs region occurred north of the Camp Springs crossroads in the 1940s and 1950s.
The biggest evolution in the 1940s was the subdivision of the Middleton farm north of Camp Springs.
Guy Trueman assembled one of his many subdivisions in the mid-1940s by platting Trueman Heights on over 100 acres (0.40 km2) in the northwest quadrant of the Camp Springs crossroads.
One of the exceptions is the large Westchester Estates evolution positioned in the southwest quadrant of the Camp Springs crossroads.
Camp Springs is positioned at 38 48 27 N 76 55 05 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 7.7 square miles (20.0 km2), of which 0.02 square miles (0.04 km2), or 0.19%, is water. Joint Base Andrews, home base of the Air Force Systems Command and the official presidential aircraft Air Force One, is adjoining to Camp Springs, and the base in particular, along with federal jobs in Washington, D.C., were primary reasons for the community's initial development.
The Camp Springs Senior Activity Center is homed in the former Camp Springs Elementary School.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Camp Springs has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Camp Springs, Maryland a b "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Camp Springs CDP, Maryland".
Camp Springs, Maryland.
"Demographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Camp Springs CDP, Maryland".
Climate Summary for Camp Springs, Maryland Camp Springs, Maryland Camp Springs, Maryland at DMOZ Municipalities and communities of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States Berwyn Heights Bladensburg Brentwood Capitol Heights Cheverly Colmar Manor Cottage City Eagle Harbor Edmonston Fairmount Heights Forest Heights Landover Hills Morningside North Brentwood Riverdale Park University Park Upper Marlboro Accokeek Adelphi Andrews AFB Aquasco Baden Beltsville Brandywine Brock Hall Calverton Camp Springs Cedarville Chillum Clinton Coral Hills Croom East Riverdale Fairwood Forestville Fort Washington Friendly Glassmanor Glenn Dale Hillandale Hillcrest Heights Kettering Konterra Lake Arbor Landover Langley Park Lanham Largo Marlboro Meadows Marlboro Village Marlow Heights Marlton Melwood Mitchellville National Harbor Oxon Hill Peppermill Village Queen Anne Queenland Rosaryville Seabrook Silver Hill South Laurel Springdale Suitland Summerfield Temple Hills Walker Mill West Laurel Westphalia Woodlawn Woodmore Andrews Manor Ardmore Avondale Carmody Hills Carole Highlands Cedar Heights Cheltenham Collington Danville Goddard Green Meadows Hillsborough Indian Creek Village Kentland Leeland Lewisdale Meadows Montpelier Muirkirk North College Park Nottingham Palmer Park Piscataway Raljon Rogers Heights South Bowie Tantallon TB Tuxedo Vansville West Hyattsville White Hall Woodyard
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