Landover is an

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and

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Prince George's County ) , demonym = Prince Georgian , ZIP codes = 20607–20774 , area codes = 240, 301 , founded date = April 23 , founded year = 1696 , named for = Prince George of Denmark , leader_title = Executive , leader_name = Angela D. Alsobrook ...

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. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 25,998. Landover is contained between Sheriff Road and Central Avenue to the south, Hill Road, Cabin Branch Drive, and the

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(Metro) Orange Line tracks to the west, John Hanson Highway (

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) to the north, and Washington D.C.'s Capital Beltway (Interstate 495/95) to the east. Landover borders the communities of New Carrollton,

Landover Hills Landover Hills is a town in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 1,815. The town has a neighborhood named Defense Heights. History Landover Hills was incorporated in 1945. Geography Landover Hi ...

, Glenarden, Lanham, Ardmore, Kentland, Cheverly, Chapel Oaks,

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, Carmody Hills, Pepper Mill Village, Walker Mill, and Largo.

History

Landover was named after the town of

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, Wales. The former CDPs of Landover,

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, Kentland, and Palmer Park, defined as such by the

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in the 1990 U.S. Census,"1990 COUNTY BLOCK MAP"
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Prince George's County.

. Retrieved on September 9, 2018. The CDPs of Landover, Dodge Park, Kentland, and Palmer Park are shown on page
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were consolidated into the Greater Landover CDP as of the

2000 U.S. Census The United States census of 2000, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 cen ...

. This amalgamated area was renamed the Landover CDP as of the 2010 U.S. Census.2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Landover CDP, MD
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. Retrieved on September 1, 2018.

Demographics

2020 census

''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.''

Geography

Landover is located at . According to the

, it has an area of , of which , or 0.13%, is water. Landover residents have the postal zipcode of 20785. Since Landover is an unincorporated community in Prince George's County, residents of Landover have Hyattsville postal addresses though they live in Landover and not Hyattsville. Landover does not have its own postal zipcode. Landover consists of several small subdivisions which are notably Ardwick Park, Kentland, Kenmoor, Dodge Park, Brightseat, Palmer Park, Columbia Park, Village Green, White House Heights, and Summerfield. Landover is home to

FedExField FedExField (originally Jack Kent Cooke Stadium) is an American football stadium located in Summerfield, Maryland, east of Washington, D.C. The stadium is the home of the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). From 2004 u ...

, which the NFL's

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have played at since it opened in 1997. It is also home to the Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex, WMATA's Landover Metrobus Division, WMATA's Carmen E. Turner Maintenance Facility, Giant Food Corporate Office, Giant Food Corporate Plant, National Harmony Memorial Park Cemetery, and Ardwick Industrial Park. WMATA

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's Orange Line from New Carrollton to Vienna, MARC train Line to the BWI Light Rail Station to Washington D.C.'s Union Station, Cargo Trains, and Amtrak's Train Line from Washington D.C.'s Union Station to New York's Penn Station via Wilmington and

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, all go through Landover.

is a separate, incorporated community just across the Orange Line train tracks and John Hanson Highway (U.S. Highway 50) to the north. Landover is the birthplace of the late

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. From 1960 to 1972, Landover was the home of jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, author, and jazz educator Steve Rochinski. For the 2000 census, Landover was delineated by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Greater Landover census-designated place.

Economy

Eight O'Clock Coffee's coffee production plant is located in Landover. Giant Food has its headquarters in a location in

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Prince George's County in the Ardwick Industrial Park area, near Landover. The Giant Food Headquarters is located next to the New Carrollton Metro Station. It is served by the F13 metrobus shuttle that goes from the Cheverly Metro station to Washington Business Park.

Arts and culture

Beall's Pleasure and Ridgley Methodist Episcopal Church are listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

. A Harlem Renaissance Festival occurs at Kentland-Columbia Park Community Center in Landover every year in May. In 2014, the

National Archives for Black Women's History National Archives for Black Women's History (formerly the National Council of Negro Women's National Library, Archives, and Museum) is an archive located at 3300 Hubbard Rd, Landover, Maryland. It is dedicated to cataloguing, restoring and preservin ...

was controversially relocated from

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, to 3300 Hubbard Road in Landover.

Sports

is a

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stadium A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...

for the

of the

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in the neighboring CDP of Summerfield and has a Landover postal address. (See also Raljon, Maryland.) The

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and

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used to play in Landover's Capital Centre (later known as the US Airways Arena) before moving to the

Capital One Arena Capital One Arena is an indoor arena in Washington, D.C. Located in the Penn Quarter neighborhood, the arena sits atop the Gallery Place rapid transit station of the Washington Metro. It has been largely considered to be a commercial success ...

, inside D.C itself. The arena was demolished in 2002. The Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex is also in Summerfield CDP, located on approximately adjacent to FedExField.

Government

Prince George's County Police Department The Prince George's County Police Department (PGPD) is the primary law enforcement agency in Prince George's County, Maryland in the United States, servicing a population of over 900,000 residents and visitors within 498 square miles (1,290&n ...

headquarters, which is also District 3 Station, is in the Palmer Park area in Landover CDP. The

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operates the Landover Post Office in the CDP.

Education

Public education

Landover is a part of the

Prince George's County Public Schools Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS) is a large public school district administered by the government of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, and is overseen by the Maryland State Department of Education. The school system is ...

system. Elementary schools serving sections of the Landover CDP include: Columbia Park, Dodge Park, Cooper Lane, Gladys Noon Spellman, Highland Park, and William Paca.NEIGHBORHOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND BOUNDARIES SCHOOL YEAR 2018-2019
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. Retrieved on September 1, 2018. Middle schools serving sections of the Landover CDP include: G. James Gholson, Kenmoor, and Charles Carroll.NEIGHBORHOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND BOUNDARIES SCHOOL YEAR 2018-2019
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. Retrieved on September 1, 2018. Senior high schools serving sections of the Landover CDP include: Fairmont Heights, Charles Herbert Flowers,

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, and Bladensburg.NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOLS AND BOUNDARIES SCHOOL YEAR 2018-2019
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. Retrieved on September 1, 2018. The schools serving the 1990 CDP are:"1990 COUNTY BLOCK MAP"
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Prince George's County.

. Retrieved on September 9, 2018. Landover CDP is shown on pag
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Cooper Lane and Gladys Noon Spellman elementaries, Charles Carroll Middle, and Bladensburg High. When

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began in 1972, PG County school officials bused many black children in Landover to schools with large numbers of white students in other areas of the county. Since then many schools in the Landover area had closed. David Nakamura of ''

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'' stated that many Landover residents believed that desegregation busing contributed to the socioeconomic decline of Landover. In 1998 the busing program was abolished due to a settlement in federal court. Matthew Henson Elementary School was previously in the CDP. It was scheduled to close in 2009.''Preliminary Subregion 4 Master Plan and Proposed Sectional Map Amendment''.

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Chapter 9, Public Facilities
p. 261 (PDF p. 3/28). Retrieved on September 7, 2018. In 2012 EXCEL Academy agreed to open a charter school in the former Henson space, and it moved from its previous campus in Riverdale. Other area schools: * Kenmoor Elementary School * Palmer Park Elementary School * Columbia Park Elementary School * John Carroll Elementary School - closed in 2009 * Cora L. Rice Elementary School * Thomas Pullen Creative & Performing Arts Academy

Colleges and universities

Landover had career-based colleges, such as Fortis College, that offer programs including bio-technician, medical assisting, and medical coding and billing.

Infrastructure

Transportation

Landover is one of the few regions in the Washington, D.C. area that is served directly by two separate Washington Metro rail lines. Landover is served by both the

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and

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lines (many DC area suburbs are not served directly by Metrorail at all). The Landover

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station serves the northern portion of Landover on the Orange Line. The Landover Metro Station is also the primary metro station that serves the Landover area. The

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Metro station, constructed in 2004, serves the southern portion of Landover on the Blue Line and is the main rail terminus providing access to

, which is home to the

in addition to many other sporting and entertainment events. Landover also has a special Metrobus Division also houses many metrobuses that serve routes in Prince George's County, Maryland. In addition to the Landover and Morgan Boulevard Metro Stations that primarily serve the Landover area, Landover residents have access to other metro stations nearby, such as the New Carrollton Metro Station, Cheverly Metro Station, Largo Town Center Metro Station, and Addison Road-Seat Pleasant Metro Station. I-495/95, the

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, crosses

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in Landover. The Beltway also has junctions with

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(Landover Road) and Brightseat Road, which leads directly to FedExField.

Shopping

Landover was the home of

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, owned and operated by

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. Built in 1972, it was the first enclosed mall in the

metropolitan area to house four high-end retail anchor stores: Garfinkel's,

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(owned by the May company), Woodward and Lothrop (popularly known as Woodies), and

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. The mall also housed a multiplex movie theater located in the basement of the northeast corridor of the building. Located at the Capital Beltway and Landover Road, the mall neighbored the towns of Palmer Park, Ardmore, Glenarden, and Largo. Palmer Park was the hometown of Olympic boxing champion

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. Garfinkel's closed in 1990, Woodies closed in 1995 and was replaced with a J.C. Penney store that lasted from 1996 to 2001, and Hecht's closed in 2002 with the opening of the

Bowie Town Center Bowie Town Center is an outdoor shopping mall located in Bowie, Maryland that opened in November 2001. The mall is located on Emerald Way near the interchange of US Route 301 and US Route 50. Bowie Town Center has 79 stores including Macy's, S ...

located in Bowie. The entire mall officially closed in 2003 and was demolished in 2006, with the exception of Sears. Sears closed in 2014 and was later demolished. With the arrival in 1997 of

, the mall's parking lot is used for overflow parking. In 2007, according to ''The Washington Post'', Prince George's County officials were in the midst of developing plans to transform the area where Landover Mall once stood. County officials propose to build luxury townhouses, trendy stores, and office buildings. The goal of the project is to transform the area into a residential and cultural hub that replicates the

, and

The Boulevard at the Capital Centre The Boulevard at the Capital Centre was an open-air shopping center in Lake Arbor, Prince George's County, Maryland; it had a Largo postal address.Lake Arbor CDP and has a Largo postal address.2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Lake Arbor CDP, MD
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Woodmore Towne Centre, featuring

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and

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, opened in 2010 in nearby Glenarden.

Parks and recreation

The Prince George's County Department of Parks and Recreation operates the Kentland Community Center and the Palmer Park Community Center.Palmer Park Community Center
" Prince George's County Department of Parks and Recreation. Retrieved on September 20, 2018. "Palmer Park Community Center 7720 Barlowe Road Landover, MD 20785"

References

External links

* {{authority control Census-designated places in Maryland Census-designated places in Prince George's County, Maryland Washington metropolitan area