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Greenbelt is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Contained within today's City of Greenbelt is the historic, planned community now known locally as "Old Greenbelt." Greenbelt's population was 21,456 at the 2000 census. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Asheville City Hall. ... Image File history File links Flag of Greenbelt, Maryland File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Seal of Greenbelt, Maryland This image depicts a seal, an emblem, a coat of arms or a crest. ... Adapted from Wikipedias MD county maps by Seth Ilys. ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area Ranked 42nd - Total 12,417 sq mi (32,160 kmÂ²) - Width 90 miles (145 km) - Length 249 miles (400 km) - % water 21 - Latitude 37Â°53N to 39Â°43N - Longitude 75Â°4W to 79Â°33... United States of America, showing states, divided into counties. ... Prince Georges County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland immediately north, east, and south of Washington, D.C. It is the wealthiest majority African-American county in the nation. ... A Municipal Corporation is a legal defintion for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, and towns. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... A mayor (from the Latin mÄior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (â‰ˆ1,609 m) in length. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... EST (shown in yellow) is UTC-5 The Eastern Time Zone (ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of Northern America and the west coast of South America. ... -12 | -11 | -10 | -9:30 | -9 | -8 | -7 | -6 | -5 | -4 | -3:30 | -3 | -2:30 | -2 | -1 | -0:25 | UTC (0) | +0:20 | +0:30 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +3:30 | +4 | +4:30 | +4:51 | +5 | +5:30 | +5:40 | +5:45 | +6 | +6:30 | +7 | +7:20 | +7... Daylight saving time around the world DST used DST no longer used DST never used Daylight saving time (DST), also summer time in British English, is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. ... âˆ’12 | âˆ’11 | âˆ’10 | âˆ’9:30 | âˆ’9 | âˆ’8 | âˆ’7 | âˆ’6 | âˆ’5 | âˆ’4 | âˆ’3:30 | âˆ’3 | âˆ’2:30 | âˆ’2 | âˆ’1 | âˆ’0:25 | UTC (0) | +0:20 | +0:30 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +3:30 | +4 | +4:30 | +4:51 | +5 | +5:30 | +5:40 | +5:45 | +6 | +6:30 | +7 | +7:20 | +7... Prince Georges County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland immediately north, east, and south of Washington, D.C. It is the wealthiest majority African-American county in the nation. ...

History

Old Greenbelt was settled in 1937 as a public cooperative community (one of many public works projects referred to by Woody Guthrie as "an experiment in American socialism"^[1]) in the New Deal Era. The concept was at the same time both eminently practical and idealistically utopian: the federal government would foster an "ideal" self-sufficient cooperative community that would also ease the pressing housing shortage near the nation's capital. Construction of the new town would also create jobs and thus help stimulate the national economic recovery following the Great Depression. Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... For cooperative as used in biochemistry, see cooperative binding. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ... The New Deal was the name President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to the series of programs between 1933â€“1938 with the goal of relief, recovery and reform of the United States economy during the Great Depression. ... The Great Depression was a time of economic downturn, which started after the Stock Market Crash on October 29, 1929, also known as Black Tuesday. ...

Greenbelt, which provided affordable housing for federal government workers, was one of three "green" towns planned in 1935 by Rexford Guy Tugwell, head of the United States Resettlement Administration, under authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. (The two other green towns are Greendale, Wisconsin (near Milwaukee) and Greenhills, Ohio (near Cincinnati). A fourth green town, Roosevelt, New Jersey (originally called Homestead), was planned but was not fully developed on the same large scale as Greenbelt. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, helped Tugwell lay out the town on a site that had formerly consisted largely of tobacco fields. Eleanor Roosevelt also was heavily involved in the first cooperative community designed by the federal government in the New Deal Era, Arthurdale, West Virginia, which sought to better the lives of impoverished laborers by enabling them to create a self-sufficient, and relatively prosperous, cooperative community. 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... Rexford Guy Tugwell (July 10, 1891 - July 21, 1979) was an agricultural economist under Franklin D. Roosevelts administration and one of the contributors on his New Deal. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... The Historic Trimborn Farm Greendale is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. ... This article is about Milwaukee in Wisconsin. ... Greenhills is a village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. ... Cincinnati, Ohio viewed from the SW, across the Ohio River from Kentucky. ... Roosevelt is a borough located in Monmouth County, New Jersey. ... Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 â€“ November 7, 1962) was an American political leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 to promote her husbands (Franklin D. Roosevelts) New Deal, as well as civil rights. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), 32nd President of the United States, the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. ... Arthurdale is an unincorporated community located in Preston County, West Virginia, USA. Arthurdale was named for Richard Arthur, the owner of the land on which it was built. ...

The architectural planning of Greenbelt was innovative, but no less so than the social engineering involved in this federal government project. Social engineering has several meanings: Social engineering (political science) Social engineering (computer security) This is a disambiguation page â€” a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Bordering Areas

Berwyn Heights is a town located in Prince Georges County, Maryland. ... New Carrollton is a city located in Prince Georges County, Maryland. ... Goddard is a census-designated place located in Prince Georges County, Maryland. ... College Park is a city in Prince Georges County, Maryland, USA, United States. ...

Geography and Highlights

Greenbelt is located at 39°0′2″N, 76°53′18″W (39.000460, -76.888325)^GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.6 km² (6.0 mi²). 15.5 km² (6.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (0.50%) is water. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (â‰ˆ1,609 m) in length. ...

Greenbelt Road is a portion of State Highway 193, a highway connecting several suburban towns, with links to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and to the nation's capital. Maryland State Highway 193 is roughly 26-mile-long east-west road through Montgomery County and Prince Georges County, Maryland. ... The Baltimore-Washington Parkway The Baltimore-Washington Parkway (B-W Parkway) is a federally owned freeway, operated by the National Park Service, running parallel to Interstate 95 approximately five miles to its east between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC. Signs at its termini dedicate it to Gladys Noon Spellman. ...

The Goddard Space Flight Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is located there, as is Greenbelt Park. Aerial view of Goddard Space Flight Center. ... NASA Logo Listen to this article Â· (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Greenbelt Park, located in Greenbelt, Maryland, is managed by the United States National Park Service. ...

Demographics

As of the census^GR2 of 2000, there were 21,456 people, 9,368 households, and 4,965 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,385.3/km² (3,586.6/mi²). There were 10,180 housing units at an average density of 657.3/km² (1,701.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 41.35% African American, 0.23% 39.74% White,Native American, 12.05% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 3.11% from other races, and 3.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.45% of the population. 1870 US Census for New York City A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... Race, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is a self-identification data item in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...

There were 9,368 households out of which 26.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 33.1% were married couples living together, 15.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 47.0% were non-families. 35.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 3.00. â€œMatrimonyâ€ redirects here. ...

In the city the population was spread out with 21.9% under the age of 18, 12.5% from 18 to 24, 39.1% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 6.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 91.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $46,328, and the median income for a family was $55,671. Males had a median income of $39,133 versus $35,885 for females. The per capita income for the city was $25,236. About 6.0% of families and 10.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.7% of those under age 18 and 7.2% of those age 65 or over. The per capita income for a group of people may be defined as their total personal income, divided by the total population. ... Map of countries showing percentage of population who have an income below the national poverty line The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...

Education

Greenbelt is served by Prince George's County Public Schools. Prince Georges County Public Schools (PGCPS) [1] is a large school district that serves Prince Georges County, Maryland, USA. It has an approximate enrollment of almost 134,000 students and is the 2nd largest school district in the state and the 18th largest school district in the nation. ...

All of Greenbelt is served by Greenbelt Middle School and Eleanor Roosevelt High School, a highly-rated magnet school; both schools are in the city. Lanham is an unincorporated community in Prince Georges County in the State of Maryland in the United States of America. ... Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) is a high school located in Greenbelt, Maryland and is part of the Prince Georges County Public Schools system in the USA. It contains roughly 3000 students in grades 9 through 12. ...

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