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Capitol Heights is an incorporated town in Prince George's County, Maryland, sitting directly on Washington, D.C.'s eastern border where the city's Northeast and Southeast quadrants meet.

The town began in 1904, when Baltimore developer Otway B. Zantzinger bought 400 hilly acres just beyond the District line and divided them into 4,000 lots sold for $20 to $150 each.

In 1910, roughly 200 householders voted to incorporate their community as the Town of Capitol Heights.

The 2020 census counted 4,050 residents in Capitol Heights, down 6.6 percent from its peak of 4,337 in 2010.

Capitol Heights had 1,504 households and 1,593 housing units at the 2020 census.

The town covers only about 0.78 square miles, with a 2020 population density of about 5,187 people per square mile.

About 81 percent of Capitol Heights residents identified as Black or African American in the 2020 census, while the Hispanic or Latino share of the population grew to about 13 percent.

Capitol Heights' ZIP code is 20743, a postal area that also covers surrounding unincorporated neighborhoods such as Coral Hills, Walker Mill, and Pepper Mill Village.

The 'electric railway' promised to lot buyers in 1904 finally arrived in 1980, when the Capitol Heights station opened on the Washington Metro's Blue Line.

Maryland Route 214, the town's main highway, becomes East Capitol Street in Washington and continues the street that divides the capital's Northeast and Southeast quadrants.