Chevy Chase Village

History

In the 1890s, a real estate syndicate led by Francis G. Newlands bought more than 1,700 acres in upper Northwest D.C. and southern Montgomery County and began to develop a streetcar suburb he dubbed Chevy Chase. Newlands' Chevy Chase Land Company divided the Maryland land into subdivisions; Sections 1, 1a, and 2 became known as the Village of Chevy Chase. In 1914, Village residents sought and received state sanction as a special taxing area. It was incorporated in 1951. The village was created to be all-white; it remains overwhelmingly so more than a century later.

Geography

Chevy Chase Village is located along the southern edge of Montgomery County. It is bordered to the southeast by the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Washington, D.C., to the southwest by Friendship Heights Village, to the west by Somerset, to the northwest by the Chevy Chase Club, to the north by the town of Chevy Chase Section Three, and to the northeast by Martin's Additions. The town has total area of , all land. The town is in the Potomac River watershed, with the west part of the town draining to the Little Falls Branch, and the east part draining to a tributary of Rock Creek.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  187,042
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  163,195
• Carolina Wren

  Thryothorus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  142,953
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  141,560
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  132,742
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  126,601
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  124,065
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  119,624

Largest nearby schools

• Montgomery Blair High
  High · Silver Spring · 3,204 students · 16.7:1 ratio
• Walter Johnson High
  High · Bethesda · 2,942 students · 18.6:1 ratio
• Wheaton High
  High · Silver Spring · 2,599 students · 16.6:1 ratio
• Richard Montgomery High
  High · Rockville · 2,390 students · 17.8:1 ratio
• Bethesda-Chevy Chase High
  High · Bethesda · 2,335 students · 18:1 ratio
• Winston Churchill High
  High · Potomac · 2,234 students · 18.6:1 ratio
• Walt Whitman High
  High · Bethesda · 2,018 students · 17.4:1 ratio
• Albert Einstein High
  High · Kensington · 2,012 students · 15.4:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 2.5 — 2025-10-27
  4 km E of Riverside, Maryland
• M 2.6 — 2021-06-25
  2 km SE of Woodlawn, Maryland
• M 3.03 — 2016-01-17
  3 km NE of Ranson, West Virginia
• M 3.6 — 2010-07-16
  5 km NNW of Barnesville, Maryland