Landover, Maryland

Landover was named after the town of Llandovery, Wales.{{cite web|url= http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=2651|title= Profile for Landover, Maryland, MD|publisher= ePodunk|access-date= August 25, 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130210122545/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=2651|archive-date= February 10, 2013|url-status= dead}}

The former CDPs of Landover, Dodge Park, Kentland, and Palmer Park, defined as such by the U.S. Census Bureau in the 1990 U.S. Census,"1990 COUNTY BLOCK MAP" ([https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_000.pdf index map]) Prince George's County. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on September 9, 2018. The CDPs of Landover, Dodge Park, Kentland, and Palmer Park are shown on pages [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_013.pdf 13], [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_014.pdf 14], [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_017.pdf 17], and [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_018.pdf 18]. were consolidated into the Greater Landover CDP as of the 2000 U.S. Census."[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk2000/st24_Maryland/Place/2434711_GreaterLandover/CBP2434711_001.pdf CENSUS 2000 BLOCK MAP: GREATER LANDOVER CDP]." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on September 9, 2018. This amalgamated area was renamed the Landover CDP as of the 2010 U.S. Census."[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2445325_landover/DC10BLK_P2445325_001.pdf 2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Landover CDP, MD]." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on September 1, 2018.

{{US Census population

|1970= 5597

|1980= 5374

|1990= 5052

|2000= 22900

|2010= 23078

|2020= 25998

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|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.html|title=Decennial Census of Population and Housing by Decades|publisher=US Census Bureau|access-date=}}
2010 2020
Listed as Greater Landover in 2000 after it was
merged with Dodge Park, Palmer Park and Kentland
The name was restored as Landover in 2010

}}

Landover is located at {{coord|38.924|N|76.888|W|type:city}}. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, it has an area of {{convert|10.55|sqkm|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|0.01|sqkm|order=flip|3}}, or 0.13%, is water.{{Cite web| url=https://www.census.gov| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Landover CDP, Maryland| publisher=United States Census Bureau| access-date=December 20, 2011}} Landover residents have the postal zipcode of 20785. Since Landover is an unincorporated community in Prince George's County, residents of Landover have Hyattsville postal addresses though they live in Landover and not Hyattsville. Landover does not have its own postal zipcode.

Landover consists of several small subdivisions which are notably Ardwick Park, Kentland, Kenmoor, Dodge Park, Brightseat, Palmer Park, Columbia Park, Village Green, White House Heights, and Summerfield. Landover is home to Northwest Stadium, which the NFL's Washington Commanders have played at since it opened in 1997. It is also home to the Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex, WMATA's Landover Metrobus Division, WMATA's Carmen E. Turner Maintenance Facility, Giant Food Corporate Office, Giant Food Corporate Plant, National Harmony Memorial Park Cemetery, and Ardwick Industrial Park. WMATA Metrorail's Orange Line from New Carrollton to Vienna, MARC train Line to the BWI Light Rail Station to Washington D.C.'s Union Station, Cargo Trains, and Amtrak's Train Line from Washington D.C.'s Union Station to New York's Penn Station via Wilmington and Philadelphia, all go through Landover. Landover Hills is a separate, incorporated community just across the Orange Line train tracks and John Hanson Highway (U.S. Highway 50) to the north. Landover is the birthplace of the late Len Bias. From 1960 to 1972, Landover was the home of jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, author, and jazz educator Steve Rochinski.

For the 2000 census, Landover was delineated by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Greater Landover census-designated place.

Eight O'Clock Coffee's coffee production plant is located in Landover. Giant Food has its headquarters in a location in unincorporated Prince George's County in the Ardwick Industrial Park area, near Landover."[http://www.giantfood.com/about_us/company/facility_locations.htm Facility Locations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080903005253/http://www.giantfood.com/about_us/company/facility_locations.htm |date=September 3, 2008 }}". Giant Food. Retrieved on September 6, 2011. "8301 Professional Place, Suite 115 Landover, MD 20785." The Giant Food Headquarters is located next to the New Carrollton Metro Station. It is served by the F13 metrobus shuttle that goes from the Cheverly Metro station to Washington Business Park.

Beall's Pleasure and Ridgley Methodist Episcopal Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.{{NRISref|version=2010a}} A Harlem Renaissance Festival occurs at Kentland-Columbia Park Community Center in Landover every year in May.{{cite web|url= http://www.festivals.com/viewevent.aspx?eventid=2aWwZDqLM2w%3D|title= Harlem Renaissance Festival |publisher= Festival Media Corporation |access-date=August 24, 2012}} In 2014, the National Archives for Black Women's History was controversially relocated from Washington, D.C., to 3300 Hubbard Road in Landover.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/national-park-service-to-go-ahead-with-moving-archives-from-bethune-house/2014/02/26/1569e94c-9e72-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191119172430/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/national-park-service-to-go-ahead-with-moving-archives-from-bethune-house/2014/02/26/1569e94c-9e72-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-11-19|title=National Park Service to go ahead with moving archives from Bethune house - The Washington Post|newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2019-11-19|access-date=2019-11-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/mamc/learn/historyculture/mamc_nabwh.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022182303/https://www.nps.gov/mamc/learn/historyculture/mamc_nabwh.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-10-22|title=National Archives for Black Women's History - Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)|date=2019-10-22|access-date=2019-11-20}}

File:FedexField photo by Flickr user dbking.jpg, the home field of the National Football League (NFL)'s Washington Commanders.]]

Northwest Stadium is a football stadium for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League in the neighboring CDP of Summerfield and has a Landover postal address.{{cite web|url=http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2475810_summerfield/DC10BLK_P2475810_001.pdf|title=2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Summerfield CDP, MD|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=2018-09-07}}"[https://www.visitmaryland.org/listing/groups/fedexfield FedExField]." State of Maryland Office of Tourism Development. Retrieved on September 7, 2018. "1600 FedEx Way, Landover, MD 20785" - See also [https://web.archive.org/web/20180907155715/https://www-redskinsfiles-com.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/pocket-cms/2017-fedexfield-parking_guide%20(002).pdf parking map from] Washington Commanders website (See also Raljon, Maryland.) The Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals used to play in Landover's Capital Centre (later known as the US Airways Arena) before moving to the Capital One Arena, inside D.C itself. The arena was demolished in 2002.{{Cite web|url=https://wtop.com/local/2017/04/capital-centre/|title = Flashback: Before the Capitals, and the birth of the Cap Centre|date = 26 April 2017}}

The Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex is also in Summerfield CDP,"[https://www.redskins.com/stadium/parking-and-directions Fedexfield Parking and Directions]." Washington Commanders. Retrieved on September 7, 2018. "[...]Prince George’s County Sports Complex located at 8001 Sheriff Rd, Hyattsville MD 20785." located on approximately {{convert|80|acre|m2}} adjacent to FedExField.[http://www.pgsportsandlearn.com/index.html Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex]

Prince George's County Police Department headquarters, which is also District 3 Station,"[https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Calendar.aspx?EID=2147 Winter/Spring PAL Basketball Clinic] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919204645/https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Calendar.aspx?EID=2147 |date=September 19, 2018 }}." Government of Prince George's County. Retrieved on September 20, 2018. "Location: Police Headquarters Address: 7600 Barlowe Road Landover, MD 20785 ""[https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Facilities/Facility/Details/District-3-Station-Landover-118 District 3 Station - Landover] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909112532/https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Facilities/Facility/Details/District-3-Station-Landover-118 |date=September 9, 2018 }}." Prince George's County Police Department. Retrieved on September 9, 2018. " 7600 Barlowe Road Landover, MD 20785 ". [https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2654/District-3-Beat-Map-PDF?bidId= Beat map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909063510/https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2654/District-3-Beat-Map-PDF?bidId= |date=September 9, 2018 }} is in the Palmer Park area in Landover CDP.

The U.S. Postal Service operates the Landover Post Office in the CDP."[https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=all&address=Landover%2C+MD&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1434417&locationName=LANDOVER&address2=&address1=3312+DODGE+PARK+RD&city=HYATTSVILLE&state=MD&zip5=20785&zip4=9997&tollFree=800-ASK-USPS%26reg%3B%26nbsp%3B%28800-275-8777%29&fax=&tAddress=&tAddress1Ams=&tAddress2Ams=&tCityAms=&tStateAms=&tZipAms=&tCarrierRouteAms=&latitude=38.928381&longitude=-76.883031&sWithin=20&&&&&&&&& LANDOVER]." U.S. Postal Service. Retrieved on September 11, 2018. "3312 DODGE PARK RD HYATTSVILLE, MD 20785-9997"

Landover is a part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system.

Elementary schools serving sections of the Landover CDP include: Columbia Park, Dodge Park, Cooper Lane, Gladys Noon Spellman, Highland Park, and William Paca."[http://gis.pgcps.org/mapgallery/Maps/Boundaries%20-%20Elementary.pdf NEIGHBORHOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND BOUNDARIES SCHOOL YEAR 2018-2019]." Prince George's County Public Schools. Retrieved on September 1, 2018. Middle schools serving sections of the Landover CDP include: G. James Gholson, Kenmoor, and Charles Carroll."[http://gis.pgcps.org/mapgallery/Maps/Boundaries%20-%20Middle.pdf NEIGHBORHOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND BOUNDARIES SCHOOL YEAR 2018-2019]." Prince George's County Public Schools. Retrieved on September 1, 2018. Senior high schools serving sections of the Landover CDP include: Fairmont Heights, Charles Herbert Flowers, DuVal, and Bladensburg."[http://gis.pgcps.org/mapgallery/Maps/Boundaries%20-%20High.pdf NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOLS AND BOUNDARIES SCHOOL YEAR 2018-2019]." Prince George's County Public Schools. Retrieved on September 1, 2018. The schools serving the 1990 CDP are:"1990 COUNTY BLOCK MAP" ([https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_000.pdf index map]) Prince George's County. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on September 9, 2018. Landover CDP is shown on page [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_013.pdf 13]. Cooper Lane and Gladys Noon Spellman elementaries, Charles Carroll Middle, and Bladensburg High.

When desegregation busing began in 1972, PG County school officials bused many black children in Landover to schools with large numbers of white students in other areas of the county. Since then many schools in the Landover area had closed. David Nakamura of The Washington Post stated that many Landover residents believed that desegregation busing contributed to the socioeconomic decline of Landover. In 1998 the busing program was abolished due to a settlement in federal court.{{cite news|author=Nakamura, David|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/02/27/pr-georges-school-splits-the-classes/02b19ca1-d336-40aa-ba79-975baf9f33c2/|title=Pr. George's School Splits the Classes|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=2000-02-27|access-date=2018-09-02}}

Matthew Henson Elementary School was previously in the CDP.[https://web.archive.org/web/20010516130542/http://www.pgcps.pg.k12.md.us/~mhenson/ Home page]. Matthew Henson Elementary School. May 16, 2001. Retrieved on September 7, 2018. "Matthew Henson Elementary/Montessori School 7910 Scott Road Landover, Maryland 20785" It was scheduled to close in 2009.Preliminary Subregion 4 Master Plan and Proposed Sectional Map Amendment. Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. [http://www.mncppcapps.org/planning/publications/pdfs/208/I-Chap9-PublicFacilities.pdf Chapter 9, Public Facilities]. p. 261 (PDF p. 3/28). Retrieved on September 7, 2018. In 2012 EXCEL Academy agreed to open a charter school in the former Henson space,{{cite news|author=Brownback, Abby|url=http://www.gazette.net/gazettecms/story.php?id=38056|title=Riverdale charter school to move into vacant Landover elementary building|newspaper=The Gazette|date=2012-05-21|access-date=2018-09-07|archive-date=2018-09-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907145115/http://www.gazette.net/gazettecms/story.php?id=38056|url-status=dead}} and it moved from its previous campus in Riverdale.{{cite news|author=Leaderman, Daniel|url=http://www.gazette.net/stories/08192010/collnew180246_32541.php|title=New principal of Riverdale charter school wants to build strong community ties|newspaper=The Gazette|date=2010-08-19|access-date=2018-09-07|archive-date=2018-09-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907143809/http://www.gazette.net/stories/08192010/collnew180246_32541.php|url-status=dead}}

Other area schools:

• Kenmoor Elementary School{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
• Palmer Park Elementary School
• Columbia Park Elementary School{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
• John Carroll Elementary School - closed in 2009
• Cora L. Rice Elementary School{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
• Thomas Pullen Creative & Performing Arts Academy{{Citation needed|date=September 2018}}

Landover had career-based colleges, such as Fortis College,[http://www.fortis.edu/south.php Fortis College - Landover] that offer programs including bio-technician, medical assisting, and medical coding and billing.

File:Landover Station - DSCN9376.jpg station on the Orange Line of the Washington Metro, pictured in August 2018, located off MD 202]]

Landover is one of the few regions in the Washington, D.C. area that is served directly by multiple separate Washington Metro rail lines. Landover is served by the Orange, Blue, and Silver lines (many DC area suburbs are not served directly by Metrorail at all). The Landover Metro station serves the northern portion of Landover on the Orange Line. This station is also the primary metro station that serves the Landover area. The Morgan Boulevard Metro station, constructed in 2004, serves the southern portion of Landover on the Blue and Silver Lines and is the main rail terminus providing access to Commanders Field, which is home to the Washington Commanders in addition to many other sporting and entertainment events. Landover also has a special Metrobus Division also houses many Metrobuses that serve routes in Prince George's County, Maryland.

In addition to the Landover and Morgan Boulevard Metro Stations that primarily serve the Landover area, Landover residents have access to other metro stations nearby, such as New Carrollton, Cheverly, Largo, and Addison Road-Seat Pleasant.

I-495/95, the Capital Beltway, crosses U.S. Route 50 in Landover. The Beltway also has junctions with Maryland Route 202 (Landover Road) and Brightseat Road, which leads directly to FedExField.

{{main|Landover Mall}}

Landover was the home of Landover Mall, owned and operated by Lerner Enterprises. Built in 1972, it was the first enclosed mall in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to house four high-end retail anchor stores: Garfinkel's, Hecht's (owned by the May company), Woodward and Lothrop (popularly known as Woodies), and Sears. The mall also housed a multiplex movie theater located in the basement of the northeast corridor of the building. Located at the Capital Beltway and Landover Road, the mall neighbored the towns of Palmer Park, Ardmore, Glenarden, and Largo. Palmer Park was the hometown of Olympic boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard.In the late 1980s, crime began to rise in the surrounding areas and frightened shoppers eventually helped fuel the mall's rapid decline. The movie theater was the first to close, followed by three of the mall's anchor stores in the 1990s. Garfinkel's closed in 1990, Woodies closed in 1995 and was replaced with a J.C. Penney store that lasted from 1996 to 2001, and Hecht's closed in 2002 with the opening of the Bowie Town Center located in Bowie. The entire mall officially closed in 2003 and was demolished in 2006, with the exception of Sears. Sears closed in 2014 and was later demolished.

With the arrival in 1997 of FedExField, the mall's parking lot is used for overflow parking. In 2007, according to The Washington Post,{{Cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/08/AR2007070801048.html | title=Landover May Be Next On Revival Bandwagon | author=Ovetta Wiggins | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=July 9, 2007 | access-date=May 27, 2015}} Prince George's County officials were in the midst of developing plans to transform the area where Landover Mall once stood. County officials propose to build luxury townhouses, trendy stores, and office buildings. The goal of the project is to transform the area into a residential and cultural hub that replicates the Bowie Town Center, and The Boulevard at the Capital Centre; the latter is in Lake Arbor CDP and has a Largo postal address."[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2444817_lake_arbor/DC10BLK_P2444817_000.pdf 2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Lake Arbor CDP, MD]." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on September 1, 2018. Pages: [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2444817_lake_arbor/DC10BLK_P2444817_001.pdf 1] and [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st24_md/place/p2444817_lake_arbor/DC10BLK_P2444817_002.pdf 2].[https://web.archive.org/web/20071113001653/http://www.shopcapcentre.com/Contact/ContactUs/Index.htm Contact Us]." The Boulevard at the Capital Centre. Retrieved on September 9, 2018. "Boulevard at the Capital Centre 900 Capital Centre Boulevard Largo, MD 20774"

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The Prince George's County Department of Parks and Recreation operates the Kentland Community Center and the Palmer Park Community Center."[http://www.pgparks.com/Facilities/Facility/Details/Kentland-Community-Center-21 Kentland Community Center]." Prince George's County Department of Parks and Recreation. Retrieved on September 20, 2018. "Kentland Community Center 2413 Pinebrook Avenue Landover, MD 20785""[http://www.pgparks.com/Facilities/Facility/Details/Palmer-Park-Community-Center-29 Palmer Park Community Center]." Prince George's County Department of Parks and Recreation. Retrieved on September 20, 2018. "Palmer Park Community Center 7720 Barlowe Road Landover, MD 20785"

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