Inverness Knolls

Potomac is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, spread across rolling terrain just northwest of Washington, D.C. and named for the nearby Potomac River. About a 30-minute drive from downtown D.C. via the Clara Barton Parkway, and within easy reach of Bethesda and the Tysons business district in Northern Virginia, it offers a leafy, low-density suburban setting. Daily life centers on Potomac Village, a cluster of shops and restaurants at the intersection of Falls Road (MD-189) and River Road (MD-190), while the C&O Canal and the Great Falls of the Potomac provide a dramatic natural edge to the community. What began as a rural farming area in the 18th century transformed into a D.C. suburb during the postwar suburbanization of the 1950s. Housing is dominated by owner-occupied single-family homes on generous lots, so the rental market is comparatively limited and skews toward larger single-family houses and townhomes.