Montgomery

Formed September 6, 1776 (18^th county)

Montgomery County (1,062,054), Rockville (67,126), Gaithersburg (69,656)

The red concrete Modern courthouse was built in 1982.  It is located on Maryland Avenue and Jefferson Street.  Maryland State Highway 28 is one block south of the site.  Elmer A. Delmar is the architect.  There were 1891 and 1931 buildings also in Rockville, the only county seat.  A District Courthouse also supports the county.  Montgomery County was created on September 6, 1776 from Frederick County as the 18^th county.  The county is named for Revolutionary War hero General Richard Montgomery.  The county seat is named for Rock Creek.  Montgomery County was the birthplace of 2 Maryland Governors, F. P. Blair Lee III and Westley W. O. Moore. 

Montgomery County government consists of an executive, an administrator, a police chief, and a sheriff (executive).  It has 11 Council Members (legislative.)  Thirty-two Circuit Court Judges and Fifteen District Court Judges serve Montgomery and Frederick counties and a court clerk and a county attorney serve Montgomery County (judicial.) The county center is 7.9 miles Northwest of Rockville nearer Gaithersburg.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Carroll, Howard, and Prince George’s counties and District of Columbia and Virginia and Frederick County. 

The area of the county is 507 square miles.  It is 12 out of 24 in the state.  It ranks 1 out of 24 in population in the state.  It has a density of 2094.8 persons per square mile making it 2 out of 24 in the state.  Montgomery County has 16.5% of its population in its incorporated areas.  Interstate Highway 270 enters from Frederick County, north, and terminates.  United States Highway 29 goes east to south in the county from Howard County to District of Columbia.  The county is shaped like a bowl of salad pouring southwest.  Rockville is in the southern half of the county.  Rockville is the county seat and Gaithersburg is the largest city.  Rockville is 6.3% of the county population while Gaithersburg is 6.6% of the county population.  This county is in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metropolitan Statistical Area.