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1965 Map of Rockville

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of Rockville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1966
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1966

About this map

Rockville serves as the bustling centerpiece of this mid-1960s suburban landscape, showing the rapid conversion of Montgomery County farmland into residential developments. The city core is anchored by the Courthouse, Post Office, and a dense cluster of schools and churches including Zion Ch and St Marys Ch. Extending outward, a massive wave of post-war subdivisions like Regency Estates, Montgomery Square, and Willerburn Acres has begun to fill the spaces between historic road corridors.

Industry and public works are integrated into the growing residential grid, from the U S Bureau of Standards campus in the northwest to the Filtration Plant and numerous radio towers. The Potomac River forms the southwestern boundary, paralleled by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, while the Baltimore and Ohio RR and the recently constructed Beltway and Washington National Pike facilitate the heavy commuter flow toward the capital. This period marks a distinct era where suburban leisure, seen at the Shady Grove Music Fair, exists alongside large private tracts like the U S Mil Res.