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Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, it is an edge city [3] with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 census, [4] making it the fifth-most-populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Germantown, and Waldorf.
Since 1993, NOAA's administrative headquarters has been located at the Silver Spring Metro Center office complex in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. [18] [19] The consolidated 1.2 million sq ft (110,000 m 2), four-building campus was constructed in 1993 and is home to over 40 NOAA sub-agencies and offices, including the National Weather Service.
It is located just north of central Silver Spring which it is a part of, and just north of the Capital Beltway around Georgia Avenue. According to the United States Census Bureau , the place has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2 ), all land, although Sligo Creek and several drainage ponds are located in the area.
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It is a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) branch of the Department of Commerce, and is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, within the Washington metropolitan area. [9] [10] The agency was known as the United States Weather Bureau from 1891 until it adopted its current name in 1970. [11]
Burnt Mills Dam, Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River, Silver Spring, MD. In the 1700s, a water mill was built at the easternmost corner of Four Corners, where today's Colesville Road passes over the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River and becomes Columbia Pike. The mill building burned down in 1788, hence the name Burnt Mills.
Weather Underground uses observations from over 250,000 personal weather stations worldwide. [21] The Weather Underground's WunderMap overlays weather data from personal weather stations and official National Weather Service stations on a Mapbox Map base and provides many interactive and dynamically updated weather and environmental layers. [22]