White Oak is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

The headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration now occupies the property, which has been renamed the Federal Research Center at White Oak.

The main area of White Oak is from Lockwood Drive starting from New Hampshire Avenue (MD 650) towards Stewart Lane, crossing Columbia Pike (U.S. 29).

[10] After the war, the Quaint Acres subdivision was home to famed naturalist Rachel Carson and where she wrote Silent Spring in 1962, the book that facilitated the ban of the pesticide DDT in the United States.

[11] Quaint Acres was also the Washington area home to Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. House and the Senate.

[16] The largest ancestry groups by race, according to current estimates, were:[17] White Oak is home to a large population Orthodox and Conservative Jews.

The Silver Spring Eruv Association includes parts of White Oak and the nearby neighborhoods of Kemp Mill and Colesville.

Shaare Tefila was originally founded in Riggs Park, a historically Jewish neighborhood in Washington, D.C., once known as DC's "Little Tel Aviv."