Cabin John-Brookmont was a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

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(adjacent to

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) during the

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

and

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

censuses, which included the primary communities of Cabin John and Brookmont. The population recorded in 1990 was 5,341 and consisted of 2,168 housing units. The census area disbanded to form Cabin John and Brookmont in

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

. The ZIP codes serving the area are 20816 and 20818.

Geography

Located at 38.96737 north and 77.14763 west, the census area of Cabin John-Brookmont was bounded by the census areas of Potomac to the northwest, McLean (the

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) to the south and Bethesda to the northeast. The

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of the CDP was 2.7 square miles. Maryland - Census Bureau
Retrieved 2013-09-18.

References

{{authority control Brookmont, Maryland Former census-designated places in Maryland Maryland populated places on the Potomac River Populated places in Montgomery County, Maryland