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District Heights is an incorporated city in Prince George's County, Maryland, just southeast of Washington, D.C., near Maryland Route 4, and about 10 miles from the center of the capital.

The Town of District Heights was incorporated in 1936 by act of the Maryland General Assembly, at a time when it had only about 250 residents.

District Heights began as farmland owned by Major Leander P. Williams, assembled from four colonial Lord Baltimore land patents known as "Good Luck," "Magruder's Plains Enlarged," "the Levels" and "Offutt's Adventure."

In 1925 developers led by Joseph Tepper bought 505 acres of the Williams farm and formed the District Heights Company; within a year the town had about 25 homes, a grocery store and filling station, a pump house and water tower, and a free Model T bus service into Washington.

Many of District Heights' Cape Cod-style houses date to the 1940s, when builders put up FHA-financed homes aimed at federal employees and returning World War II veterans, and New York builder Samuel R. Rosoff added garden apartments after buying the remaining 300 undeveloped acres in 1946.

District Heights' population peaked at 7,846 in 1970; the 2020 census counted 5,959 residents, up slightly from 5,837 in 2010.

The 2020 census recorded 2,111 households and 2,201 housing units in District Heights, which packs nearly 6,000 people into about 0.86 square miles.

District Heights is a majority-Black city: in 2020 about 85 percent of its residents were Black or African American alone.

The city is governed by a mayor and a city commission elected to four-year terms.

District Heights has its own police department, which dates to the city's incorporation in 1936, and its own volunteer fire department, Prince George's County Fire Company 826.