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Laytonsville is an incorporated town in northern Montgomery County, Maryland, governed by a mayor and town council.

The town was incorporated in 1892.

Laytonsville was originally known as Cracklintown, a name said to come from the cracklin bread, a bacon cornbread baked in the area; the surrounding district was long known as the Cracklin District.

The town grew up at a crossroads where drovers moving cattle and pigs toward Baltimore markets stopped overnight; Maryland Route 108 follows this historic route through town.

The 2020 census counted 572 residents in Laytonsville, up 62 percent from 353 in 2010.

At the 2010 census the town had just 353 people, 127 households and 133 housing units.

For most of its history Laytonsville was a tiny farming crossroads whose population stayed between 127 and 293 through the entire 20th century.

Fertile Manor and Chester loam soils over a red clay subsoil made the farmland around Laytonsville prized for agriculture.

The town covers about 1.05 square miles and sits on a low ridge about 10 miles north of Rockville, the Montgomery County seat.

That ridge drains west to Goshen Branch, in the Potomac River watershed, and east toward the Hawlings River, in the Patuxent River watershed.