North Chevy Chase is a incorporated village in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.
The town is part of a larger community, colloquially referred to as Chevy Chase, that includes several adjoining settlements in Montgomery County and one neighborhood of Washington, D.C. North Chevy Chase lies on the site of Clean Drinking plantation, a much larger colonial land grant visited by George Washington as reported in his diary.
[5] The area was crossed by the Chevy Chase Lake & Kensington Railway, a two-mile streetcar line built in 1895 to connect the new town of Kensington to the northern terminus of the Rock Creek Railway streetcar line from the District of Columbia.
After the streetcar line shut down in 1935, Montgomery County purchased much of the right-of-way, paved it, and opened it in 1940 as Kensington Parkway, the area's main road.
[7] It is surrounded by unincorporated neighborhoods of Chevy Chase and is less than 3 miles (5 km) north of the District of Columbia.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.12 square miles (0.31 km2), all land.
[2] North Chevy Chase lies immediately south of the Capital Beltway (I-495), just to the east of the interchange with Connecticut Avenue (MD 185).
The village is crossed by Kensington Parkway which runs parallel to Connecticut Avenue.
North Chevy Chase is a part of the Montgomery County Public Schools.
However, just outside the town limits, Maryland Route 185 (Connecticut Avenue) has an interchange with Interstate 495 (the Capital Beltway), providing easy road access to much of the region.