§ 1-105. County boundary line with Montgomery County.  


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  • (a)

    Notwithstanding the provisions of any previous law, the boundary line between Prince George's and Montgomery County is defined and established by the following metes, bounds, and coordinates:

    (1)

    Beginning at a point on the District of Columbia Line, where formerly stood a stone established to mark the point common to Montgomery and Prince George's Counties by a survey of the county line in 1868 to 1872, said point having been reestablished by this survey from reference notes recorded by the District of Columbia Surveyor prior to the removal of the stone during the reconstruction of Eastern Avenue in 1947 and 1948, said point now being marked by a brass screw cemented in a two-inch iron pipe standing two inches above the macadam and at the base of a concrete retaining wall on the northeast side of Eastern Avenue approximately thirty-six (36) feet northwest of the southeast end of said retaining wall, with coordinates of the beginning point of North 413,898.60 and East 797,723.97, and running thence with the County line, as now determined, N 30 o 06' 02" E (north thirty degrees six minutes two seconds east) for 17,351.72 (seventeen thousand three hundred fifty-one and seventy-two one hundredths) feet to a granite stone marked "M.C.P.G. 1872" and with coordinates of N 428,910.38 and E 806,426.19 established by the 1868-72 survey and set flush with the ground on the northeasterly side of Mt. Pisgah Road;

    (2)

    Thence N 29 o 59' 05" E (north twenty-nine degrees fifty-nine minutes five seconds east) for 38,363.53 (thirty-eight thousand three hundred sixty-three and fifty-three one hundredths) feet to the outline of part of a conveyance from Theodore B. Siehler and Bessie M. Siehler, his wife, and Eugene Dustin and Goldie M. Dustin, his wife, to Martin C. Darnall and Mildred T. Darnall, his wife, by a deed dated the 2nd of May 1950 and recorded among the land records of Prince George's County, Maryland, in Liber 1227 at Folio 389;

    (3)

    Thence N 49 o 29' 11" W (north forty degrees twenty-nine minutes eleven seconds west) for 271.84 (two hundred seventy-one and eighty-four one hundredths) feet to an iron pipe (pin) previously set;

    (4)

    Thence N 48 o 0' 29" E (north forty-eight degrees zero minutes twenty-nine seconds east) for 383.09 (three hundred eighty-three and nine one hundredths) feet to an iron pipe (pin) previously set;

    (5)

    Thence S 23 o 3' 08" E (south twenty-three degrees thirteen minutes eight seconds east) for 171.93 (one hundred seventy-one and ninety-three one hundredths) feet to a point on the Montgomery County and Prince George's County line, said point being 39.73 (thirty-nine and seventy-three one hundredths) feet from an iron pipe (pin) previously set opposite Station 92 + 50.00 as shown on State Roads Commission Plat 46592;

    (6)

    Thence leaving said outline of the M. C. and M. T. Darnall property and with the Montgomery County and Prince George's County line N 29 o 9' 05" E (north twenty-nine degrees fifty-nine minutes five seconds east) for 89.55 (eighty-nine and fifty-five one hundredths) feet to a granite stone established by the 1868-72 survey and with coordinates of N 462,521.90 and E 825,819.86, marked "M.C.P.G. 1872" standing about two feet above ground and on the northerly side of Sandy Spring Road (State Route 198), and about 1,056 feet westerly from the centerline of Gunpowder Road;

    (7)

    Thence N 19 o 2' 18" E (north nineteen degrees twenty-two minutes eighteen seconds east) 4,405.13 (four thousand four hundred five and thirteen hundredths) feet to an iron pipe with coordinates of North 466,677.64 and East 827,281.01 on the easterly side of Riding Stable or Brooklyn Bridge Road at or near the westerly corner of the C. Shamel property as per deed recorded among the Land Records of Prince George's County in Liber 1043 at Folio 206;

    (8)

    Thence N 40 o 0' 20" W (north forty degrees no minutes twenty seconds west) 1666.58 (sixteen hundred sixty-six and fifty-eight hundredths) feet to a point with coordinates of North 467,954.22 and East 826,209.63 at the end of the fourth line of a conveyance from James W. Smith, et ux., to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission by a deed dated the 6th day of January 1953, and recorded among the land records of Montgomery County, Maryland, in Liber 1753 at Folio 89, thence with said fourth line reversed N 54 o 9' 39" E (north fifty-four degrees nineteen minutes thirty-nine seconds east) 622.40 (six hundred twenty-two and forty hundredths) feet to a concrete monument with coordinates of North 468,317.17 and East 826,715.25 at the southwest corner of a conveyance from Thomas I. Burton, et ux., to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission by a deed dated the 25th day of July 1950, and recorded among the Land Records of Montgomery County, Maryland, in Liber 1412 at Folio 395;

    (9)

    Thence with the last line of said deed N 54 o 9' 39" (north fifty-four degrees nineteen minutes thirty-nine seconds east) 683.61 (six hundred eighty-three and sixty-one hundredths) feet to a concrete monument with coordinates of North 468,715.81 and East 827,270.58 at the end thereof;

    (10)

    Thence with the full length of the first line of said deed and in extension thereof through parcel one of a conveyance from Norman C. Dustin to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission by a deed dated the 19th day of October 1950 and recorded among the Land Records of Montgomery County in Liber 1448 at Folio 106, N 55 o 5' 10" E (north 55 degrees twenty-five minutes ten seconds east) 292.35 (two hundred ninety-two and thirty-five hundredths) feet to a point with coordinates of North 468,881.74 and East 827,511.28;

    (11)

    Thence N 31 o 9' 50" W (north thirty-one degrees nine minutes fifty seconds west) 313.40 (three hundred thirteen and forty hundredths) feet to a concrete monument with coordinates of North 469,149.92 and East 827,349.10 at or near the southwest corner of a conveyance by L. Marshall Cuvillier, Jr., et ux., to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission by a deed dated the 16th day of February 1951, recorded among the Land Records of Montgomery County in Liber 1497 at Folio 117;

    (12)

    Thence N 58 o 0' 10" E (north fifty-eight degrees fifty minutes ten seconds east) 489.99 (four hundred eighty-nine and ninety-nine hundredths) feet, to a point with coordinates of North 469,403.48 and East 827,768.38; thence S 31 o 9' 50" E (south thirty-one degrees nine minutes fifty seconds east) 399.44 (three hundred ninety-nine and forty-four hundredths) feet to a point on a concrete monument with coordinates of North 469,061.68 and East 827,975.09 at or near the southwest corner of a tract of land conveyed by Howard B. Shipley, et ux., to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission by a deed dated the 22nd day of May 1952 and recorded among the Land Records of Montgomery County, in Liber 1672 at Folio 201;

    (13)

    Thence with the fifth line of said deed N 68 o 1' 20" E (north sixty-eight degrees forty-one minutes twenty seconds east) 466.97 (four hundred sixty-six and ninety-seven hundredths) feet to a concrete monument at the end thereof with coordinates of North 469,231.40 and East 828,410.13;

    (14)

    Thence with the southerly line of a tract of land conveyed by Richard D. Boyle to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission by a deed dated the 17th day of July 1951, and recorded among the Land Records of Montgomery County in Liber 1782 at Folio 469, for the full length thereof and passing over a concrete monument at the southeast corner of said tract and continuing with the southerly line of a tract of land conveyed by Gilmer B. Randolph, et ux., to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission by a deed dated the 26th day of March 1952 and recorded among the Land Records of Montgomery County in Liber 1663 at Folio 457, N 64 o 6' 30" E (north sixty-four degrees twenty-six minutes thirty seconds east) 1680.37 (sixteen hundred eighty and thirty-seven hundredths) feet to a point with coordinates of North 469,956.35 and East 829,926.06;

    (15)

    Thence so as to include a part of Parcel "A" conveyed by Chester F. Naumowicz, Jr. to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission by a deed dated the 7th day of March 1952 and recorded among the Land Records of Montgomery County, in Liber 1644 at Folio 293, N 22 o 7' 57" E (north twenty-two degrees seventeen minutes fifty-seven seconds east) 961.88 (nine hundred sixty-one and eighty-eight hundredths) feet to a point with coordinates of North 470,846.30 and East 830,291.04, said point being about six-tenths of a foot southwest of a fence corner;

    (16)

    Thence N 64 o 8' 00" E (north sixty-four degrees eight minutes no seconds east) 509.38 (five hundred nine and thirty-eight hundredths) feet to the end of the third line in said deed at a point with coordinates of North 471,068.53 and East 830,749.39, said point being 9866.36 feet N 29 o 8' 32" E from a granite stone marked "M.C.P.G. 1872," standing about two feet above ground on the northerly side of the Sandy Spring Road (State Route 198);

    (17)

    Then crossing said conveyance from Naumowicz to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission N 29 o 8' 30" E (north twenty-nine degrees fifty-eight minutes thirty seconds east) 2085.80 (two thousand eighty-five and eighty hundredths) feet to a point with coordinates of North 472,875.34 and East 831,791.50 at the end of the 17th (seventeenth) line of said deed recorded among the Land Records of Montgomery County in Liber 1644 at Folio 293, said point having been in the centerline of the channel of the Patuxent River as established prior to the flooding of said river by the construction of the Rocky Gorge Reservoir.

    (PLL 1963, Sec. 4-6; Laws 1968, Ch. 725; Laws 1990, Ch. 624)

    Editor's note— CR-15-1990 approved 177 maps depicting the location and boundaries of Drug Free School Zones as official records of the County.

    CR-33-1992 approved 5 maps depicting the location and boundaries of Drug Free School Zones as official records of the County.

    Laws 1994, ch. 636, provided for a referendum to alter the Prince George's County/Montgomery County boundary to place all of the City of Takoma Park in Montgomery County. That referendum was approved in the municipal election conducted in November 1995. Effective July 1, 1997, the part of the City of Takoma Park that was located in Prince George's County became a part of Montgomery County.