Census place with Damascus Heritage Museum, Damascus Library and Damascus Community Center.
Search this neighborhoodDamascus is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland with about 18,000 residents. Its edges follow Gue Road and Bellison Road on the north, Kings Valley Road and Watkins Road on the south, Long Corner Road and Mullinix Mill Road on the east and Kings Valley Road and Founders Way on the west. Parks inside it include Damascus Neighborhood Park, John Haines Park, Bennett Creek Conservation Park and Damascus Recreational Park. Other places inside it include Damascus Heritage Museum, Damascus Library, Damascus Community Center and Damascus High School.
By area, Damascus is zoned mostly Rural Cluster (RC), Residential Estate, cluster (RE-2C) and Residential Detached (R-200, R-90). Transit that serves it includes Ride On Route 90 Shady Grove-Damascus. Permits issued here over the past year are mostly alterations, new construction and additions. Run an address search on CivicScout to see the details for a specific property.
CivicScout counts police reports that carry a map location (the Montgomery County Police Department and the Rockville City, Gaithersburg City and Takoma Park departments) and traffic crashes inside the Damascus Census-place outline. About 1 in 7 reports in the county feed, and 1 in 6 reports of serious violent crime, carries no map location, so the counts understate crime, violent crime included, and cannot show that an area has little of it. Incidents handled by the Chevy Chase Village, campus, federal and park police do not appear. In the year to November 2026 nearly half of the reports with a Damascus mailing address carried no map location, so the count here understates crime more than most places.
View safety data →Permits issued in Damascus over the past year are mostly in the categories alterations, new construction and additions.
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View new construction →Zoning in Damascus is mostly Rural Cluster, Residential Estate, cluster and Residential Detached, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
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