History of Gaithersburg, Maryland
Gaithersburg is a city"Gaithersburg", as place name, is used for more than just the City of Gaithersburg. Many unincorporated parts of Montgomery County near Gaithersburg have mailing addresses of "Gaithersburg". At the extreme, there are some properties on the south side of Damascus, Maryland|Damascus — several miles north of Gaithersburg, and north even of Montgomery Village, Maryland|Montgomery Village, Germantown, Maryland|Germantown, Laytonsville, Maryland|Laytonsville and Clarksburg, Maryland|Clarksburg — which have Gaithersburg mailing addresses. For example, the intersection of Log House Road and Woodfield Road (Maryland Route 124) is more than five miles outside the Gaithersburg city limits. This article is, however, about the City of Gaithersburg. in Montgomery County, Maryland|Montgomery County, Maryland. As of 2005, the city had an estimated total population of 57,698[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPopulation?_event=Search&geo_id=16000US2430325&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US24%7C16000US2430325&_street=&_county=gaithersburg&_cityTown=gaithersburg&_state=04000US24&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=geoSelect&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=population_0&ds_name=null&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null®=null%3Anull&_keyword=&_industry= Census Factfinder for Gaithersburg], making it the third largest in the state behind Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore and Frederick, Maryland|Frederick. This city is located at 39°8' North, 77°13' West, to the northwest of Rockville, Maryland|Rockville, the county seat of Montgomery County. Gaithersburg was incorporated in 1878.
Gaithersburg is home to the neo-traditionalist new town of Kentlands, Maryland|Kentlands, designed by Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, which was an important early example of the new urbanism movement. Other new urbanist communities in Gaithersburg include Lakelands, the Washingtonian Center, Crown Farm and Watkins Mill Town Center.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is headquartered in GaithersburgTechnically, although NIST's mailing address is in Gaithersburg, and the City of Gaithersburg surrounds NIST's property, the land where NIST is situated is not incorporated into the City of Gaithersburg. Instead, it is in an unincorporated part of Montgomery County. Owing to the piecemeal manner land has been added to Gaithersburg over the years, there are multiple such unincorporated Enclave and exclave|enclaves within the perimeter; see the [http://www.gaithersburgmd.gov/documents/zoning_3_2005.pdf City's Zoning Map] for details (3MB PDF). Other major employers in the city include IBM, ACE*COMM, Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Services business area headquarters, MedImmune, and Sodexho.
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